[linux-audio-user] JACK ports

Ruben Lopez rl1205 at sillylovesongs.com
Mon Feb 6 13:29:18 EST 2006


 On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 13:03:53 -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
> 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).

So is this overhead enough to make an significant impact on latency, or is it too minimal to worry about?


Ruben




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