[linux-audio-dev] Jack Zombified??

Paul Davis paul at linuxaudiosystems.com
Sun Apr 27 12:54:00 UTC 2003


>What does it mean when it says "zombified -- exiting from JACK". Why
>exactly is it becoming a zomby or what does it mean and, how do I
>reconnect if it does that? It seems to do it intermittently without any
>clue why it does it.

first: wrong list. please use jackit-devel.

second: JACK is a realtime system. when its clients do not keep up, it
has no option but to disconnect them from its processing "graph". when
a client is still registered but is no longer part of the graph, we
consider a "zombie". 

to avoid this, your program needs to ensure that it meets the
requirement of being real-time safe. see the comments in jack.h
accompanying the jack_set_process_callback() function.

--p



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