[linux-audio-user] Is everyone sick of interrupts yet?

Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano nando at ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Wed Sep 29 16:35:27 EDT 2004


On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 07:28, Brad Stafford wrote:
> Since I gave such a glowing review of my testing the other night that I
> thought I'd report back my not so stellar results from last night.
> 
> I left all the services running on a fully loaded machine (http, iptables,
> sendmail, samba, etc...) and started jack at 128/44100/2 in real time. I
> started a 20 minute recording session with ardour (no jamin yet). While
> ardour was recording I dialed into the internet with my modem, opened
> evolution, read email and poked around a bit with konqueror. I got zero,
> nada, nil, none, no xruns whatsoever.
> 
> Then I introduced jamin - 4 xruns in 8 mins.
> 
> Shut down jamin and  go back to only ardour - more xruns.
> 
> Shut down all but essential services and only use ardour - more xruns.
> 
> Seems that a bottle of xruns was opened and I can't put the cap back on.

I have seen this happen. What processor are you using? Does the cpu load
jump up (and stay up) when you enter in this "xrun mode"?

-- Fernando





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