overruns and arecord buffertime

[Charles Hallenbeck]

I have been getting frequent "overruns" of a few hundred milliseconds 
while recording sound with the alsa recorder, arecord. I have looked 
everywhere except in the arecord source code to find out what the 
default setting is for the parameter -B, --buffertime=#, which adjusts 
the buffer to a number of microseconds, but have not been able to find 
anything. Man page says nothing, help screen says nothing, etc. But 
setting this value to two million has solved the overruns.

My question is: Is two seconds a reasonable value for buffertime? Does 
anyone know what the buffertime is by default?

Thanks for any advice or pointers.

Chuck


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