[pulseaudio-discuss] alsa sink latency - how to account for startup delay

[Arun Raghavan]

On Thu, 2016-04-07 at 09:15 +0200, Georg Chini wrote:
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> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > BTW, do you think the debug output of module-loopback is
> > > > > better now?
> > > > Yes, although if it's logged twice a second, it might be better
> > > > to
> > > > print the status only if explicitly requested via a module
> > > > argument.
> > > > 
> > > The status is printed once every adjust time and only when debug
> > > logging is enabled. 500ms seems to be a good value for the adjust
> > > time, it is currently my default. If you prefer an additional
> > > argument
> > > to enable logging, I can add it.
> > Yes, I'd prefer that. Continous logging annoys me when it's about
> > something that I'm not currently interested in. module-loopback
> > isn't
> > the only thing generating annoying logs, but decreasing the
> > interval
> > from 10 seconds to 0.5 seconds makes the problem that much worse.
> > 
> Would it be OK to add a log-interval argument with a default of
> let's say 5 seconds or would you prefer if there is no logging
> at all without an argument?

My preference is to not add modargs for trivial things like this. Pick
a value that is sensible for users and reduce that locally while
debugging if needed.

-- Arun