[linux-audio-dev] Re: linux-audio-dev Digest, Vol 2, Issue 24

[Roger Larsson]

On Tuesday 18 November 2003 13.28, Stefan Nitschke wrote:
> >BUT, I think a userspace daemon that starts at boot time and protects
> >against lockups (rt_monitor) would be a very good thing to have.
>
> Yes indeed, but on my XP machine which freezes after a few seconds
> after a client had connected to jack even rt_monitor did not helped,
> the machine keeped totally locked. Ping is still answered but thats it.
>

ping is answered = IRQs live.
Could you please try this.
Start rt_monitor in a text console CTRL-ALT-F1

Start your client, return to console - what does rt_monitor print?

(It could be the memory leak and mlockall(FUTURE) problem,
As I do not check that yet.
Another alternative is a fast forking client - they are hard to stop)

/RogerL

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Roger Larsson
Skellefteå
Sweden