On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 08:03:38PM +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote: > > the stuttering only happens occasionally now, but it is not yet completely > > gone, e.g. the logon and logout sounds are still problematic (pulseaudio is > > running as system daemon). > > One reason for this can be that the Debian kernel is compiled with a quite low > HZ value and doesn't have PREEMPT enabled, like the kernels of most other > desktop distributions. Pulseaudio relies on a quite low latency, which can be > problematic without those options under load. Which is probably why the > stuttering happens occasionaly and especially when logging in and out.
Does this still occur with more recent versions ? pulseaudio should have gotten more resilient to system which don't succeed in given it the latency it expects. Sjoerd -- If an experiment works, something has gone wrong. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org