[linux-audio-user] Re: jackd "zombified - calling shutdown handler"

[grae]

On 2/24/07, Arnold Krille <arnold.krille at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2007/2/23, Pieter Palmers <pieterp at joow.be>:
> > Another tip: due to libfreebob internals, it is better to use 3 smaller
> > periods instead of 2 larger, e.g. -n3 -p256 will probably work better
> > than -n2 -p512.
>
> Hmm, using 2x128 and 2x256 proved to be more stable than 3x256 at my setup...
>
> Arnold
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Thanks for your help,

Ok well I seem to still get the zombies.  I got the rtirq script and I
*think* it's working.  I configured it just like the freebob site says

output from "rtirq status":
  PID CLS RTPRIO  NI PRI %CPU STAT COMMAND
  779 FF      80   - 120  0.0 S<   IRQ-8
 2076 FF      75   - 115  0.0 S<   IRQ-16
 2118 FF      64   - 104  0.0 S<   IRQ-17
 2166 FF      63   - 103  0.0 S<   IRQ-18
 2172 FF      62   - 102  0.0 S<   IRQ-19
  815 FF      60   - 100  0.0 S<   IRQ-1
  814 FF      59   -  99  0.2 S<   IRQ-12
    4 FF      50   -  90  0.0 S    softirq-high/0
    5 FF      50   -  90  0.0 S    softirq-timer/0
    6 FF      50   -  90  0.0 S    softirq-net-tx/
    7 FF      50   -  90  0.0 S    softirq-net-rx/
    8 FF      50   -  90  0.0 S    softirq-block/0
    9 FF      50   -  90  0.0 S    softirq-tasklet
   10 FF      50   -  90  0.0 S    softirq-sched/0
   11 FF      50   -  90  0.0 S    softirq-hrtimer
   12 FF      50   -  90  0.0 S    softirq-rcu/0
   42 FF      50   -  90  0.0 S<   IRQ-9
 2215 FF      50   -  90  0.0 S<   IRQ-14
 2216 FF      50   -  90  0.0 S<   IRQ-15

I used "/proc/interrupts" to show the irqs, specifically noted IRQ 16
16:        741   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb1, ehci_hcd:usb5, ohci1394, HDA
Intel, i915 at pci:0000:00:02.0

It seems that my firewire device is sharing an IRQ with a couple usb
ports, the internal soundcard and internal video.  My guess is that
this isn't good.  Should I attempt the give the firewire it's own IRQ
and if so, could you point me in the direction of how to do that?  I'm
figuring this stuff out as I go here so it's hard to know how to
proceed sometimes.

Also, when setting the jack priority do I want it to be just under the
firewire device?  for example:  if IRQ 16 was just the firewire
(running at 75), then running jack at 74 would make sense?

grae