[linux-audio-user] question about jackd/qjackctl options

[Sampo Savolainen]

On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 03:02 -0500, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
> >       -s, --softmode
> >               Ignore xruns reported by the ALSA driver.  This makes JACK less
> >               likely  to  disconnect  unresponsive ports when running without
> >               --realtime.
> 
> So, to be clear, this means that softmode and realtime are effectively 
> mutually exclusive?

In practice yes. There is no point in running both in softmode and
realtime. The worst case scenario is that a client gets deadlocked
within the process() thread and takes over jackd (in the absolutely
worst case, the whole computer) as the jack watchdog thread doesn't kill
the client.

-- 
Sampo Savolainen <v2 at iki.fi>