Bug 25769

Summary:	ogg123 and mpg321 sometimes hang, especially when disk or network activity is high.
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Matt Campbell <mattcampbell>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Sound Team <sound>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	critical	CC:	x86-kernel
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	kernel configuration from /proc/config /proc/pci

Description Matt Campbell 2003-08-02 11:26:54 UTC

Sometimes when I'm using ogg123 or mpg321 to listen to music, the process hangs and I have to kill it from another virtual console.  I haven't yet found a way to consistently reproduce the problem, but it seems to be triggered by disk or network activity.  My kernel version is 2.4.20-gentoo-r5, and I'm using alsa-driver-0.9.2 with the snd-intel8x0 module.  This happens regardless of whether I use the native ALSA interface or the OSS interface provided by snd-pcm-oss.  I have CONFIG_PREEMPT and CONFIG_LOLAT turned on.  I will try to attach my whole kernel configuration.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Once I was able to reproduce the problem by copying a large file (a .mp3 or .ogg file) over my 10 Mbps LAN using scp.
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Comment 1 Matt Campbell 2003-08-02 12:11:44 UTC

Created attachment 15375 [details]
kernel configuration from /proc/config

Comment 2 Matt Campbell 2003-08-02 12:18:59 UTC

Created attachment 15377 [details]
/proc/pci

Comment 3 J. Ellis (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-08-09 23:07:33 UTC

Sounds like a hardware problem, esp. as it doesn't appear to be driver dependant. Can't reproduce here, even with machine under high load.