[LAU] Jack conking out, How to debug?

[S. Massy]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 02:35:43PM -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 2:27 PM, S. Massy <lists at smassy.andropov.org> wrote:
> > Hello, all,
> >
> > So, thanks to the excellent advice received on this list, I recently
> > purchased a Roland UA25EX and it works just great, and out of the box at
> > that.
> >
> > Also thanks to this list, I now have my RT kernel sorted out, lean and
> > mean as ever. All great!
> >
> > With my (crappy) internal sound interface, I used to be able to leave
> > jack running for days at "-p128" without any problem, at least with my
> > new kernel. With my new USB soundcard, however, jack works flawlessly
> > for a few hours and then abruptly exits saying something to the effect
> > that jack timed out and the watchdog is doing its painful duty.
> >
> > Here is my jack command-line:
> > $ jackd -P61 -t100 -d alsa -d hw:2,0 -p128 -r 44100
> 
> why are you using -t100 ?
A leftover from my non-RT kernel, but I gigured it wasn't bad to give
processes an extra grace period. Can this have negative side-effects in
any way?

Cheers,
S.M.


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