Re: [Alsa-user] Sound output noisy after 3 hours runtime

[Clemens L. <cl...@la...>]

Fredrik Nilsson wrote:
> The music plays well in the beginning but after about 3 hours and
> twenty minutes noise (small interrupts) is heard in the sound
> every second.

At 3:22:54 with 16-bit stereo data at 44100 Hz, the number of bytes
played reaches 2^31.  Apparently, some counter is interpreted as a
signed quantity and becomes negative.

> Is this a known problem?

Not until now.

> Does anyone know about tweaks or patches to get rid of the
> problem?

It might go away after another three hours ...

I'll see if I can reproduce this.


Regards,
Clemens