[Ekiga-list] weird Ekiga behaviour, bug?

[Damien Sandras]

Le mardi 20 février 2007 à 00:47 +0000, John Leach a écrit :
> On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 01:18 +0100, Jan Schampera wrote:
> > On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:56:03 +0000
> > John Leach <john at johnleach.co.uk> wrote:
> > 
> > > I've come across a strange problem that affects Ekiga.  It usually
> > > works well, but once in a while my calls are so choppy as to be
> > > completely unusable.  The strange behaviour is that if I start
> > > another process that is CPU intensive, Ekiga works fine!
> > > 
> > > So, I experience choppy calls, then run:
> > > 
> > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1M
> > > 
> > > and the choppiness completely disappears.  Kill dd and it reappears.
> > > 
> > > I tend to get choppy calls for a whole session. Restarting Ekiga
> > > doesn't help.
> > > 
> > > I'm using Ubuntu Edgy on an i386 Sony Vaio laptop. I use suspend to
> > > ram a lot, if that's any clue.
> > > 
> > > So, I'm not sure if this is even a Ekiga bug.  Any ideas anyone?
> > 
> > That's the second time I hear such a report: choppy sound goes away on
> > high CPU load (first report was on IRC).
> > 
> > In your special case: Maybe the CPU is throttled?
> 
> acpi (via proc) tells me throttling is turned off.  It does very much
> sound like a CPU problem, and not Ekiga.  Though maybe the report will
> help others with the same problem.
> 
> I'm going to try arrange to test it with the upcoming Feisty Ubuntu
> release as that has a newer kernel.  I'll get back with any results.
> 
Try this :
arecord -D plughw:0,0 -c 1 -r 16000 -f S16_LE - | aplay -D plughw:0,0 -c
1 -r 16000 -f S16_LE -
and this :
arecord -D plughw:0,0 -c 1 -r 8000 -f S16_LE - | aplay -D plughw:0,0 -c
1 -r 8000 -f S16_LE -

do you notice the same problem ?

(it is basically an echo test)
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