Performance issues in 5.3-RELEASE. (snd_emu10k1)

[Ronald Klop]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 04:05:04 -0500, Suleiman Souhlal  
<ssouhlal at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 03:46, Ronald Klop wrote:
>> For what I have seen everybody uses snd_emu10k1. Since I use my onboard
>> soundcard (snd_ess* (not MPSAFE)) I have less problems with my sound  
>> under
>> disk load.
>
>   None of the sound drivers are actually MPSAFE.. The reason people that
> use snd_emu10k1 are more affected by this is because it has a smaller
> default buffer size (4096) than the other drivers.
>

I'm not at home now so I can't check, but I remember that the snd_emu10k1  
doesn't say [GIANT-LOCKED] in dmesg, while all my other soundcards do.

Ronald.

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  Ronald Klop, Amsterdam, The Netherlands