Re: [fluid-dev] Subversion checkins

[Ebrahim Mayat]

On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 18:40 +0100, Rui Nuno Capela wrote:

> > The problem seems to be reproducible when output meters are enabled, and 
> > does
> > not seem to occur when the meters are disabled.
> 
> that's what my suspicion was.
> 
> qsynth is forking the audio path with new_fluid_audio_driver2() when the
> output meters are enabled.
> 
> maybe this route in fluidsynth is not very well optimized in regard to
> data alignment for instance or else something even worse and hideous...
> 
> on macosx it was known to crash almost exactly as this, isn't that so
> Ebrahim? but iirc latest reports say the situation seems to have been
> cleared ;)

Right. The crash caused by enabling the output meters on OS X does not
occur with the latest build of qsynth.

E