[pulseaudio-discuss] pulseaudio debug mode

[Chris]

On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 08:37 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Chris at 26/07/10 23:40 did gyre and gimble:
> > On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 08:58 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> >> 'Twas brillig, and Chris at 23/07/10 02:04 did gyre and gimble:
> >>> What is the best way to start PA for debugging and still have all the
> >>> usual clients running?
> >>
> >> If you mean having all the clients connect (e.g. applications with
> >> libcanberra support or similar for sound events), then there are
> >> basically two ways.
> >>
> >> The first is as Luke suggests. These clients will automatically
> >> reconnect to PA if they need to (provided you have a vaguely recent
> >> libcanberra), after it is restarted and run in debug mode.
> >>
> >> Alternatively you can simply set debug-level to "debug" in daemon.conf
> >> (in /etc/pulse or ~/.pulse), and then "grep pulseaudio /var/log/messages"
> >>
> >> Col
> >>
> > 
> > Colin, the link below is for some more debug output. Notice in the first
> > section that 8 seconds after spamd starts processing a message the the
> > Alsa error starts, 2 seconds after that the overruns start. Notice in
> > line 145 that it took 145 seconds to process a message, that's about 125
> > too long. I've noticed that when I start getting the overrun errors that
> > the processing of a message takes forever, though this doesn't happen
> > every time, just periodically. All I know is that while this is going on
> > the drive is constantly being accessed for minutes at a time in the
> > first case from 9:03 to 9:08.
> > 
> > http://pastebin.com/tZNYaqRV
> 
> OK, I'll prepare some packages for you so that we can start to isolate
> what queue it is that is causing the problem.
> 
> Col
> 

Thanks Colin, looking forward to them.

Chris

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