[linux-audio-user] Kernel 2.6.15.3-rt tests

[Mark Knecht]

On 2/12/06, Marcos Guglielmetti <marcospcmusica at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
> Just to say that I repeated the same tests with 2.6.13-1-multimedia-386
>  from DeMuDi and the results are the same, but the system did not got
> _totally_ paralyzed when i used ardour+jamin with jackd's 128 buffer:
> it went super slow, unusable, but it did not got paralyzed in this
> situation.
>
>
> El Domingo, 12 de Febrero de 2006 01:15, Marcos Guglielmetti escribió:

> >
> > * BAD: into this session, I opened JAMIN and all the system went
> > very slow. Then I restarted jack into play only mode and it worked
> > well: I could master the tracks connected to Jamin from Ardour
> > outputs.

<AND...>

> >
> > I opened Jamin and all goes well with 1024 buffer, but with the 128
> > buffer the system just got paralyzed.

Jamin is very CPU intensive and this machine is probably of about
average or slightly slow CPU speed these days.

If you open a terminal and run top what do you see when it slows to a
crawl? Look with Jack operating in both play/record and play modes to
see what happens.

Good luck,
Mark