[linux-audio-user] Re: [Jackit-devel] [Fwd: Re: Linux audio latency]

[Sampo Savolainen]

On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 15:29, Florian Schmidt wrote:
> On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 12:55:18 +0300
> Sampo Savolainen <v2 at iki.fi> wrote:
> > Actually, that's not entirely correct. I've been talking to Paul about
> > this. The xruns created by exiting clients is due to jackd having to
> > rework it's internals. When doing this reordering, jackd has to lock
> > the data it's modifying and sometimes (very often) there will be an
> > xrun because the audio thread is waiting for the lock to be released.
> > 
> 
> Ah, and btw: Shouldn't the audio thread just try the lock and if it
> fails to claim it produce a period of silence? What spot in the code is
> this?

I don't know jacks internals myself. What I posted the other day was 
simply something that I gathered from discussing the issue of xruns 
when clients disconnected.

The jack development people will know more about this issue.

 Sampo