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Comment by b20000

5 months ago

this is the fault of a poorly designed application and not the OS

Here is the contents of the bug I have reported with all the details and sample code to reproduce the problem:

https://twistedwave.com/AudioGlitches.zip

It contains a program where the only thing I do in the real-time callback is to count the glitches, and I made sure to mlock() the memory used by the glitch counting code. When the memory pressure increases, it glitches.

  • The point is to avoid the memory pressure from increasing. Have you investigated the allocation behaviour of ALL the code in your application?

    • The memory pressure is caused by other apps on the user's machine. My test program just increments a counter when there is a glitch, and requires a trivial amount of memory. Yet, it can see glitches when other apps run in the background allocating memory.