lircd "delay" that lasts a minute or so?

[David F. <da...@fr...>]

I'm using lirc_serial / lircd, and I'm seeing strange behavior.  Every 
once in a while, lircd stops sending remote events to apps.  This 
behavior lasts for a minute or so -- then it starts working again.  No 
logs, no errors, nothing in dmesg.

I've run strace on it (strace -p <lircd pid>), and I can see that lircd 
is getting data from /dev/lirc0 when a button is pressed on the remote 
-- but it does *not* write any data out to applications waiting for 
data.  The machine is not particularly busy when this happens.  I'm 
running version 0.8.1.

So -- the questions:
Has anyone else seen this behavior?
What would be the best way to debug?  I didn't see anything in the man 
pages about increasing the debug level.
Should I attempt to reproduce with code from CVS?

Thanks in advance,


-Dave

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David Frascone

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