[linux-audio-user] Re: JACK and memory

[Peter Mogensen]

Steve Harris wrote:

> Are you looking at the memory reported by top or so on and using that to
> conclude jack is taking a lot of ram?

No. I'm looking at the HD led, and listening to the sound of my HD
swapping :)

> Jack uses (lots of) shared ram to communicate, so the consumption looks
> really scary, whereas infact most of the memory is only allocated once.

I know. But when I look at top, I can usually see one application which
is constantly increasing the percentage, until it get killed by the kernel.

> As long as you have 256MB physical ram or more you will be fine.

I have.

Peter