[linux-audio-dev] maximum ports -problem

[Paul Davis]

On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 08:39 -0400, Brett McCoy wrote:
> and then suddenly Ardour kept telling me that I was out of jack ports 
> and needed to reset jack.  What is this?  I had used maybe 4 stereo 
> ports total.  My sound card has 12 in/10 out (but I was wasn't using 
> them), and Hydrogen presented 32 stereo tracks via Jack, and I was no 
> where near the limit.  I looked at my jack settings via qjackctl and it 
> was set for 128 ports (assuming this is the same thing).

i suggest using jack_lsp under such circumstances. ardour uses more
ports than you think, especially for stereo tracks.