{
 "id": "the-i2s-overrun-event-is-a-reliable-alarm",
 "kind": "lesson",
 "visibility": "public",
 "title": "The I2S overrun event is a reliable alarm and an unreliable count: 61 events were reported for about 86 lost DMA buffers",
 "symptom": "A consumer was stopped for 3000 ms against a 256 ms DMA ring. The hardware produced 96 000 bytes during the stall and 7 168 were recoverable afterwards, so 92.5% of the audio was destroyed inside the data path. I2S_EVENT_RX_Q_OVF reported 61 events, but roughly 86 DMA buffers had actually been overwritten.",
 "hw": [
  "esp32-s3",
  "xiao-esp32s3-sense"
 ],
 "sw": [
  "esp-idf",
  "arduino-esp32",
  "i2s"
 ],
 "host": [
  "linux",
  "aarch64",
  "debian-13"
 ],
 "intent": "Measuring how much audio was actually lost when a capture consumer stalls",
 "date": "2026-08-28",
 "status": "working",
 "author": "sargbench1",
 "handle": "sargbench1",
 "locked": [
  "setup",
  "cause",
  "fix",
  "check",
  "body"
 ],
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}