[linux-audio-user] Can't get rid of xruns

torbenh at gmx.de torbenh at gmx.de
Wed Mar 29 15:21:26 EST 2006


On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 05:28:06PM +0200, Florian Schmidt wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 16:35:11 +0200
> Dominic Sacr? <dominic.sacre at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Wednesday, 29. March 2006 10:50, Florian Schmidt wrote:
> > > Some jack apps are badly programmed and start up/shut down in a non
> > > realtime safe way. I.e. jack-rack _always_ produces an xrun on
> > > shutdown.
> > 
> > Well, this seems to be application dependent. I have not seen any xruns 
> > caused by ardour, for instance. On the other hand, rezound causes xruns 
> > all the time (usually a few at startup, and then occasionally some 
> > when "doing something"). I've also seen xruns when starting/shutting down 
> > jamin, rosegarden, muse, jack-rack, xfst... Are all these apps broken?!
> 
> Probably yes. Writing a non trivial app in a realtime safe way is
> sadly not trivial at all :)

jackd produces xruns most of the time when the process graph is
reordered. which occurs on start stop of apps and port connection.

ignore these xruns. they are not a problem.


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