[Jack-Devel] What about the number of buffers?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 2019-08-07 at 16:59 +0200, Holger Marzen wrote:
> What is the difference between
>   jackd -n2 -p192
> and
>   jackd -n3 -p128

Anything other than -n2 is for esoteric reasons:
https://wiki.linuxaudio.org/wiki/list_of_jack_frame_period_settings_ideal_for_usb_interface

There might be some truth behind the theory, but in practise something
like 128 or 256 frames, 2 periods/buffer at 48 KHz works without issues.