[LAU] qjackctl fails to exit gracefully on UbuntuStudio 10.4

Raine M. Ekman raine at iki.fi
Tue Jun 1 09:05:16 UTC 2010


On Mon, 31 May 2010, John Ouzts wrote:
> Your suggestion works like a charm. "du -m /dev/shm" shows 1 MB being used,
> while "ls /dev/shm" shows two (not six) pulse files. Starting qjackctl
> increases "du -m /dev/shm" to 64MB, which remain when qjackctl is killed. On
> the other hand, I can restart qjackctl at least 5 times without problem
> and without increasing the 64MB of memory. May I ask where you were digging
> to come up with this?

/usr/binqjackctl is a shell script wrapper (at least on Ubuntu), easy to 
follow the startup logic there. And for the PA config, "man -k pulse" or a 
Google search on "pulseaudio shm" gives good leads to follow.

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