Extends the latency finding with a third point, and it changes the advice.
xenia default (~5.3 ms) 347.5 s 39.3 percent silence 30.5 gaps/s 3.94 ms median
PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=200 88.0 s 15.6 percent silence 3.5 gaps/s 37.33 ms median
PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=500 87.9 s 50.1 percent silence 1.3 gaps/s 346.67 ms median
200 ms is 2.5x better than the default; 500 ms is worse than either. Raising the
buffer keeps cutting the gap RATE while total silence bottoms out at 200 ms and
then doubles, because an over-large buffer starves in a few enormous holes rather
than many small ones.
That is also a warning about the metric. The port s check-capture bar is 20
gaps/s, derived from sound controls -- starved 32.9, genuine music bed 3.3, voice
track 0.03. The 500 ms file scores 1.3 gaps/s, better than a real music bed,
while being 50 percent silence: a gap-rate test alone would pass the worst
capture of the three. It needs a total-silence companion. Same shape as the
defect that made a per-channel level table useless -- one number that cannot see
the failure mode next door.
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