[linux-audio-user] xruns with QJackCtl getting overloaded?

[Andreas Kuckartz]

nescivi wrote:

> JB> 2. Xruns created by battery polls: I don't know if this is the same
> JB> problem that you are experiencing, but I used to run the gnome battstat
> JB> applet on my gnome panel. It took me a while to diagnose that this was
> JB> causing a lot of xruns, presumably every time it checks the battery
> JB> status. You might want to check that you don't have any status applets
> JB> running.  You might also want to check that you don't have the kacpid
> JB> bug (check google for this).
>
> This is probably the reason that I get xruns, and I suppose I should
> find a solution for that (does anyone else have the problem on a
> ThinkPad R51, 2.4.26 (debian) kernel?)

I have the same nasty problem with the battery applet on an Acer TravelMate
notebook with a release candidate of DeMuDi 1.2.1.

> But the main thing that is annoying, that even when I have no audible
> problem with this, QJackCtl (the GUI) is totally overloading the
> system, as it wants to tell me constantly about this xruns.

The same here. And if it is "overloaded" it stays so for a long time because
then it is overloaded with the outputs of xruns which seems to lead to further
xruns etc. In effect I have to hit the stop button to get out of this cycle.

Cheers,
Andreas