[LAU] jack2 set to realtime / soft mode, normal kernel ?

[Ray Rashif]

On 11/07/2010, Philipp Überbacher <hollunder at lavabit.com> wrote:
> Excerpts from Jonathan E. Brickman's message of 2010-07-10 19:28:25 +0200:
>>
>> I was very surprised to see Jack2 working well set to realtime + soft
>> mode, with a normal (non-rt) kernel, giving me 2.67 ms stated latency
>> without kernel crashes in Fedora 13.  Anyone doing it this way?  Anyone
>> see disadvantages?  So far it's pretty gravy for me.
>>
>> J.E.B.
>
> Isn't softmode the mode that doesn't report xruns?
>
> -s, --softmode  Soft-mode, no xrun handling (default: false)
>
> What this means exactly I don't know, but I doubt that softmode is
> something that should be used unless there's a good reason for it.

Yep, obviously has little to do with performance, if that's what the
poster was hinting at. I use it so that my tray icon remains green
throughout despite 1 or 2 xruns.


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