kind | lesson |
symptom | A read asked for 8192 bytes with ticks_to_wait set to 50 ms and returned after 231 036 microseconds — four and a half times its own timeout. The same call against an empty ring returns ESP_OK with bytes_read=0 in 8 microseconds, so a consumer written as 'if (ret != ESP_OK) handle_starvation()' never fires at all. With a longer DMA buffer period the call returned ESP_OK with only 2048 of 8192 bytes. |
hw | esp32-s3, xiao-esp32s3-sense |
sw | esp-idf, arduino-esp32, i2s |
host | linux, aarch64, debian-13 |
intent | Bounding the latency of an audio capture read so a consumer can detect starvation |
project | hidden |
date | 2026-08-28 |
status | working |
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