[LAU] Jack shots down or creates xruns

Niels Mayer nielsmayer at gmail.com
Fri Jun 25 16:15:23 UTC 2010


On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 6:55 AM, Thomas Hedegaard <thomas at vector.dk> wrote:
> /usr/bin/jackd -P82 -t2000 -m -dfirewire -r44100 -p1024 -n3
> ...
> Memory locking is unlimited - this is dangerous. You should probably alter
> the line:
> @audio - memlock unlimited
> in your /etc/limits.conf to read:
> @audio - memlock 427074

What about taking care of the above problem?

If some other program is competing against jackd for memory, and
you're allowing unlimited memory locking, perhaps that's a potential
source of problems?

-- Niels
http://nielsmayer.com


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