[LAU] Realtime, but many xruns when jack is started. Debian Etch

[Nigel Henry]

On Monday 01 October 2007 19:30, Marcos Guglielmetti wrote:
> El Lunes, 1 de Octubre de 2007 23:45, Nigel Henry escribió:
>  | On Monday 01 October 2007 01:42, Marcos Guglielmetti wrote:
>  | > Hi, also you can add Musix GNU/Linux's repositories (debian/etch
>  | > compatible)
>  | >
>  | > # /etc/apt/sources.list Musix GNU+Linux
>  | > deb ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix/deb/ ./
>  | >
>  | > So you can install rt kernels on you Debian/ECTH, and upgrade Ardour
>  | > to 2.1, jackd to 0.103...
>  | >
>  | > regards
>  |
>  | Sorry for replying to my previous reply with everything now snipped.
>  |
>  | I've downloaded, and installed kernel 2.6.21rt4, 2.6.21.5rt18, and
>  | rtirq, but am still getting xruns when starting jackd in qjackctl. An
>  | xrun about every 3 secs, and that's with no music apps being used.
>  |
>  | Is there anything else I need to do to get zero xruns when starting
>  | jackd?
>  |
>  | Do I need to edit /etc/security/limits.conf for example, as I had to do
>  | for Fedora 7?
>
> Yes: sure!
>
> @audio     -    rtprio   99
> @audio     -    nice      -10
> @audio     -    memlock     4000000
>
>  | As default this file has everything commented out in Etch,
>
> Bad for jackd...
>
>  | but this file in Fedora 7 already had some lines for
>  | jack-audio-connection-kit set up as default, but only with a rtprio of
>  | 20. The updated pam that came down when installing the planetccrma low
>  | latency kernel, left a limits.conf.rpmnew with higher priorities. I
>  | added these to the existing limits.conf file, commenting out the
>  | defaults, and now when starting jack on Fedora 7, I have zero xruns.
>
> Fine

>  | Nigel.

Thanks Marcos. I'll add those lines to limits.conf

btw: Do you have a GPG key for your repo? If so, where do I find it. I looked 
on your main site, but couldn't find it.

Nigel.