all right ... what about memory locking ... are you running as root / not as root (please try both), are you running with -rt or without?
no change
ok ... slowly i'm running out of ideas ...
i am surely not the best person to check for this kind of things, i actually don't quite understand what i am modifying and it is also possible that my system is wrecked somehow
currently you are the only one who both experiences and debugs this problem ...
the only idea i have at the moment the only idea i have is to make look for older versions of devel_0_38 and try to figure out the date when devel_0_38 started with this behaviour ... i know, this is a lot of work, but you would do the devel_ branch a big favor ... use cvs update -D date to check out a certain date (see man cvs for details) and start a binary search during the last few monthes ...
i'm really sorry, that i can't help you at the moment, but with your help, i'm pretty sure, we can find this bug ...
thanks ... tim