Bug 59029 seems to have nothing to do with my report since it's about some php stuff :) Maybe the correct number is another one. However I don't clearly understand what that option is for:
" -B n,m, --buffer-fragments=n,m
For the Linux/FreeBSD/OSS/ALSA/Windows sound driver, selects the number of buffer fragments in interactive mode. Increasing the number of fragments may reduce choppiness when many processes
are running. It will make TiMidity++ seem to respond sluggishly
to fast forward, rewind, and volume controls, and it will throw
the status display off sync. Specify a fragments number of 0 to
use the maximum number of fragments available.
"
however it seems to me that "_may_ reduce choppiness" and "it _will_ make timidity++ seem to respond sluggishly" explain the situation very well: you get a disadvantage without any guarantee of an advantage. However, one should ask the original debian maintainer or whoever patched it in ubuntu, I mean who introduced that line, in case one wonders why it was introduced. Did you try both with and without that option on your machine, Luca?
Bug 59029 seems to have nothing to do with my report since it's about some php stuff :) Maybe the correct number is another one. However I don't clearly understand what that option is for:
" -B n,m, --buffer- fragments= n,m OSS/ALSA/ Windows sound driver, selects the
number of buffer fragments in interactive mode. Increasing the
number of fragments may reduce choppiness when many processes
For the Linux/FreeBSD/
are running. It will make TiMidity++ seem to respond sluggishly
to fast forward, rewind, and volume controls, and it will throw
the status display off sync. Specify a fragments number of 0 to
use the maximum number of fragments available.
"
however it seems to me that "_may_ reduce choppiness" and "it _will_ make timidity++ seem to respond sluggishly" explain the situation very well: you get a disadvantage without any guarantee of an advantage. However, one should ask the original debian maintainer or whoever patched it in ubuntu, I mean who introduced that line, in case one wonders why it was introduced. Did you try both with and without that option on your machine, Luca?