[LAU] Jack ports

Len Ovens len at ovenwerks.net
Fri May 8 20:35:01 UTC 2015


On Fri, 8 May 2015, Paul Davis wrote:
> On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Will Godfrey <willgodfrey at musically.me.uk> wrote:
>       > I seem to recall someone saying there is a limit to the number of
>       ports jack
>       > can handle. What is the limit?
> In all cases, the -p argument given to the server will specify the number of
> ports. In Jack1 it defaults to 256 but can be increased arbitrarily. In Jack2, I
> don't know the default, but I do know that the upper limit is fixed at build
> time. In most cases it will be 2048.

On my system with jack2, the man page says default to 256, but 
jack_control ep gives 2048 as the default of jackdbus. I think the man 
page is wrong as jackd and jackdbus are compiled from the same config.


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