[linux-audio-user] This criticism of jackd valid?

Hartmut Noack zettberlin at linuxuse.de
Sun Jan 21 12:38:13 EST 2007


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Chris Metzler schrieb:
> http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=217898&cid=17700570
> 
> I'm curious what people here think?
>

I think the poster lacks experience with jackd - he appears to be
ignorant, what an xrun is in the real world, I posted this reply on
slashdot:

I can run jackd with ardour at 2.3ms stable and reliable on a 2.5 year
old PIV 2.8 with a 6 year old Terratec Audiocard, while having Firefox
browsing the Internet and with a Desktop Preempt Kernel.

Plus: xruns occour from time to time but only if I start up critical
Apps like Zynadd, load huge Projectfiles etc. So to be sure, that xruns
do not cause any harm, I only need to avoid starting major apps while a
Recording is running...
When I close a usual session after 3-5 h I have maybe 3-4 xruns and none
of them influenced the recorded material in any way. Even if I run into
real trouble with jackd (by playing a problematic Zynadd-Patch with too
much polyphony or the like), the session recovers usually without need
to restart, when stopping the apps, that had caused the trouble.

So I fail to get your point: what are you doing with your system and
your other-side-of-the-globe Musicians that a single xrun can destroy
your work??


best regards
Z
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