Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 30 Jan 1999 18:30:16 -0500 (EST) | From | Gregory Maxwell <> | Subject | Re: Strange interrupt behavior in 2.2.0(and pre) |
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On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I also have a 200 Mhz Pentium MMX with a soundblaster card that gives 590 > > interrupts/s when running esd. Can it be sampling something at a very high > > speed? I was however not playing (or recording) anything while these test > > were done. The system feels about 4 times faster when I kill esd. > > Ok this is because ESD doesnt stop the audio it just sits there playing > emptiness - that also is why it burns CPU on the cyrix
I believe this is a deliberate feature to keep the device open so that other devices cant make /dev/dsp unavailable to esd. (or for the more paranoid, it's designed that way to get you to switch all your sound apps to ESD).
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