[squeak-dev] Sound mixing makes nasty noises

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Mon Jan 4 15:09:03 UTC 2021


On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 10:46:45AM +0530, K K Subbu wrote:
> On 04/01/21 7:01 am, tim Rowledge wrote:
> >It depends upon the details of the OS sound handling; if the OS takes
> >a copy of the squeak buffer then in a sense said squeak buffer is now
> >completely empty and ready to be filled completely. But what if the
> >next attempt to pass a buffer finds that the OS cannot accept any
> >more samples just yet? How complicated can we make this?
> 
> Latency could be introduced in any layer - driver, kernel, library, app.
> 
> * aplay plays local files well that rules out any latency issues in 
> lib/kernel/driver layers.
> * PulseAudio introduces another buffering layer with its audio server 
> app. pactl should reveal this.
> * Squeak also uses its own buffers. As an app, it could be subject to 
> fair-share scheduling. As an interpreter, Squeak would be CPU intensive 
> workload. If there are other CPU intensive loads, then its scheduling 
> latency may impact audio play.
> 
> In addition to pactl, I would also have vmstat running in a separate 
> terminal to reveal CPU/RAM/IO spikes.
>  $ vmstat 5
> 
> HTH .. Subbu
>

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Hi Subbu,

I have been using Linux for many years, but I am always learning new
things from the tips and explanations that you provide here.

So thank you :-)

Dave
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