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

Holger Marzen holger at marzen.de
Wed Aug 7 21:00:17 CEST 2019


On Wed, 7 Aug 2019, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

> 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

To get whole 1 ms chunks the example section recommends many
combinations with n=3.

But that's not my question. I'd like to know if there is a difference
for jackd or jack clients between combinations of n and p that result in
the same number of samples in the buffers.



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