Decent Newsroom
Sign In

Pid Eins

0pointer.net/blog
Editorial Articles Media Highlights
by Pid Eins · Edited

Measuring Lock Contention

When naively profiling multi-threaded applications the time spent waiting for mutexes is not necessarily visible in the generated output. However lock contention can have a big impact on the runtime

by Pid Eins · Edited

More Mutrace

Here's a list of quick updates on my mutrace mutex profiler since my initial announcement two weeks ago (http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/mutrace.html): I added some special support for tracking

by Pid Eins · Edited

Skype

A quick update on Skype: the next Skype version will include native PulseAudio support. And not only that but they even tag their audio streams properly

by Pid Eins · Edited

Canonical,

#nocomments y one small note: requiring copyright assignment (http://www.canonical.com/contributors) from contributors, and putting your code in exotic VCSes that only a minority of potential

by Pid Eins · Edited

Latency Control

#nocomments yes An often asked question is how to properly talk to PulseAudio (http://pulseaudio.org/) from within applications where latency matters. To answer that question once and for all I've

by Pid Eins · Edited

LPC Audio BoF Notes

Here are some very short notes from the Audio BoF at the Linux Plumbers Conference (http://linuxplumbersconf.org/2009/) in Portland two weeks ago. Sorry for the delay! Biggest issue discussed was

by Pid Eins · Edited

In The Press

LWN covers Paul's and my talk at the Audio MC at LPC, Portland. (http://lwn.net/Articles/355542/) (Subscribers only for now) Update: Here's a free subscriber link.

by Pid Eins · Edited

In The Press II

CIO has an interview with me. (http://www.cio.com.au/article/320807/open_source_identity_pulseaudio_creator_lennart_poettering)

by Pid Eins · Edited

The Times They Are A-Changin'

#nocomments y Kinda fun watching this video (http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Going+Deep/Elliot-H-Omiya-Larry-Osterman-and-Frank-Yerrace-Inside-Windows-7-Audio-Stack/). As it seems the big new

by Pid Eins · Edited

Ubuntu doesn't get it

#nocomments yes <rant> So in the past Ubuntu packaged PA in a way that, let's say, was not exactly optimal. I thought they'd gotten around fixing things since then. Turns out they didn't. Seems in

by Pid Eins · Edited

Public Service Announcement

Folks! Since quite some time now the kernel exports the DMI machine information below /sys/class/dmi/id/. You may stop now parsing the output of dmidecode thus depending on external tools and

by Pid Eins · Edited

On OOM

Building on what Havoc wrote two years ago about the fallacies of OOM safety (Out Of Memory) in user code (http://log.ometer.com/2008-02.html#4.2) I'd like to point you to this little mail I just

by Pid Eins · Edited

India, 360 Degrees at a Time, Part One

Yes, I won't spare you my panorama shots from my recent trip to India. After arriving in Goa Badami (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badami) was our next stop. It's a very pretty little town in northern

Cover image for India, 360 Degrees at a Time, Part One
by Pid Eins · Edited

India, 360 Degrees at a Time, Part Two

Here's the second part of my ongoing series (http://0pointer.de/blog/photos/india-360-at-a-time-1.html). Climbing down the hills, on the banks of the Tungabhadra river you find people washing

Cover image for India, 360 Degrees at a Time, Part Two
by Pid Eins · Edited

India, 360 Degrees at a Time, Part Three

Here's the third part of my ongoing (http://0pointer.de/blog/photos/india-360-at-a-time-1.html) series (http://0pointer.de/blog/photos/india-360-at-a-time-2.html). Still in Hampi here's another 360

Cover image for India, 360 Degrees at a Time, Part Three
by Pid Eins · Edited

Announcing udev-browse

It's easy to get lost in /sys and not much fun typing long udevadm info command lines all the time. Today, when I had enough of that I sat down and spent an hour to write a little UI for exploring

Cover image for Announcing udev-browse