[Openal] Re: OpenAL Soft performance question

[Troy Yee]

Thanks for the response Chris.

The problem seems to be time related.  It can happen when very few
sounds ever get played.  The application could potentially have the
sound devices open for that period of time with very little activity.

There doesn't seem to be a gradual degradation - one second things are
fine and the next nothing is playing (correctly).  An interesting thing
is that if the application process is suspended and then resumed,
everything starts working again.

I'm not using PulseAudio, just ALSA.

As I noted, I haven't ruled out the application being at fault.  We
seemed to have the same issue with a fairly simple test app so that is
why I posted the question.  It just takes a long time to verify it has
the same behaviour.

I'll investigate some of the things you mention.  I started a test last
night with GIT from 2009/09/27 and will see what things are like this
morning.

Troy.