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

[Arun Raghavan]

On 13 April 2016 at 12:53, Georg Chini <georg at chini.tk> wrote:
> On 12.04.2016 06:33, Arun Raghavan wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 2016-04-07 at 09:15 +0200, Georg Chini wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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.
>>
>>
> Two maintainers, two opinions. Which recommendation should I follow?

Go with the log-interval argumenl, it's fine. Might be useful for
debugging without rebuilding.

-- Arun