[linux-audio-user] JACK ports

[Paul Davis]

On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 07:52 -0800, Ruben Lopez wrote:
> In JACK, if the number of Maximum Ports is increased, does JACK use more system resources? If not, is there a down side to having a high number of ports?

it uses more shared memory, yes. each port consumes a relatively small
amount (basically period_size * 4 bytes plus a small constant overhead).