[LAU] Jack problem?

[Jeremy Jongepier]

On 02/01/2011 09:04 AM, Arnold Krille wrote:
> Priority 100 is the absolute max on Linux. When you use that, nothing else
> will stop jack in case of errors. And nothing else has a chance to run, not
> even interrupts handlers for hardware.
>
> Using priorities above 80 seems save, above 90 there is a good chance that
> your jack-threads take up your cpu and nothing has enough priority to stop
> them...
>
> Don't test what happens while all is well, test what happens when you have a
> high dsp-load and then a cpu-hogging client.

Hello Arnold,

Then I probably misunderstood Torben. I thought he was saying that 
setting rtprio to 100 doesn't work at all and that it is an invalid 
setting causing JACK to fail to run in real-time mode.

Best,

Jeremy