[asterisk-users] Console latency

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

Yuan LIU wrote:
>> From: "Eric \"ManxPower\" Wieling" <eric at fnords.org>
>>
>> Yuan LIU wrote:
>>> Another bizarry: If I run the Echo application from the console, I 
>>> can hear a very long delay (upward to 1,000 ms).  I can run the same 
>>> application from a GrandStream phone (on the same LAN) and hear 
>>> little delay.  What could possibly be wrong?  If it were interrupt 
>>> overload, I'd hear lots of cracks in my echo, right?  I'm not hearing 
>>> that.  Besides, a telephony card is not involved.
>>
>> esd and artsd do buffering of audio.  Could that be the problem?
> 
> I'm totally ignorant about sound processing.  My system runs esd.  Any 
> suggestions about what to tweak?  Or any test scenario that can 
> definitely determine whether it is esd?  Thanks.

You could "killall esd" and see if anything blows up.