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

[Roman Muñoz]

Hi Nigel,

Is rtirq working four you? If yes, I think that your soundcard IRQ 
should be at prio 85 at startup... and it was not.

See this:
http://mggmail.blogspot.com/2007/07/re-rtirq-fixed.html

I downloaded it, untarred, as root copied rtirq.conf to 
/etc/default/rtirq, then ./rtirq.sh and it worked

To get it working at startup you should copy rtirq.sh as 
/etc/init.d/rtirq, then

update-rc.d rtirq start 99 2 3 4 5 . stop 01 0 1 6 .

BTW, It is the first time that i read this script. Could somebody 
elaborate on rtc and snd services "non threaded" as shown in rtirq.conf?

It seems that it does not change RTC frequency as recommended on 
Florian's site?

Best regards,
Roman








Nigel Henry escribió:
> On Thursday 04 October 2007 18:41, Rick Wright wrote:
>> Hi Nigel,
>>
>> see below
>>
>> Florian Schmidt wrote:
>>> On Thursday 04 October 2007, Nigel Henry wrote:
>>>>>> Ok, you have not done any irq priority tuning.. Try setting the IRQ-10
>>>>>> process [your emu10k1] to prio 90..
>>>>> I'm not sure what I'm doing here. I presume I need to use chrt to change
>>>>> the priority, but am not sure of the correct syntax. The current pid for
>>>>> IRQ10 is 940.
>>>>>
>>>>> Could you give me a line that will work for this pid, as the man page is
>>>>> pretty hopeless with no examples, and about 3 hrs of googling turned up
>>>>> virtually nothing.
>>>>>
>>>>> Many thanks.
>>>>>
>>>>> Nigel.
>>>>>
>>>>>> Flo
>>>> Bad to reply to my own post, but I've resolved the problem.
>>> I never quite understood what was supposed to be bad about replying to
>>> one's own post.. :)
>>>
>>>> One xrun after 6m 33secs of 0.253 msecs, which is what I'm getting on
>>>> Fedora 7.
>>> With soundcard irq prio at 90 [not shared with any other device], Jack
>>> prio at 70 and all other irq prios at default 51?
>>>
>>> Then it's either an application bug [are you running any applications]? Or
>>> a bug in the emu10k1 driver. Or in jackd, though i suppose that's rather
>>> unlikely..
>>>
>>>> Will that change of priority I've made for the soundcard on the current
>>>> pid, hold after a reboot?
>>> Nope.. It will be started with the default prio again. Have a look at the
>>> rtirq script or fiddle your own initscript. Most distros have some "local"
>>> init script where you put that command..
>>>
>>> Flo
>> Nigel,
>>
>> This will tell you which IRQ your sound card is on:
>> cat /proc/interrupts | grep -i emu10k1
>>
>> Then use this line to set the rtprio value (90 in this example) of that
>> IRQ (obviously, replace the xx with your actual IRQ value).   Assuming
>> this IRQ is stable across reboots, put this line in /etc/rc.local on
>> Fedora systems.  Been working well here for a long time.
>> chrt -f -p 90 `pidof "IRQ-xx"`
> 
> Hey, that looks promising. All the more so, as it works for you. I'll try it 
> in rc.local on Etch. The IRQ of the soundcard is constant, so hopefully it'll 
> work ok.
>> If some shell scripting guru wants to jump in, I'm sure there is a way
>> to connect these two lines so that the emu10k IRQ is found at boot time
>> (so this removes the requirement that your sound card always gets the
>> same IRQ).
>>
>> HTH,
>> Rick
> 
> Thanks for the bit of script.
> 
> Nigel.
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