[LAU] Lexicon Lambda USB - are my lockups due to the hardware or software?

[Antony Gelberg]

Sorry, I can't quote easily (using Gmail on the web)...

About underruns, I'm using 128 frames / period and 2 periods / buffer. Now
I'm trying to reproduce the issue without jackd, I guess that might be less
relevant. The "operations" I was talking about can hardly be called
massive, and the lockups last for much longer than the operations
themselves.

it's a pretty decent i5, nothing earth-shattering, but then I'm not asking
much of it. The lockups happen even without Ardour, just listening to music
with Audacious / VLC / Chrome (YouTube) / listening to old demos on
Audacity.

antony at cubase:~$ sudo hdparm -t /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
 Timing buffered disk reads: 532 MB in  3.00 seconds = 177.30 MB/sec
antony at cubase:~$ sudo hdparm -T /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
 Timing cached reads:   23756 MB in  2.00 seconds = 11889.97 MB/sec

At the moment, the jury's still out on whether the lockups happen without
jackd. Currently running without it and will report back either way.


On 14 April 2017 at 22:16, Chris Caudle <chris at chriscaudle.org> wrote:

> On Fri, April 14, 2017 1:26 pm, Antony Gelberg wrote:
> > I have noticed that the lockups seem to *start* when I do
> > something that might cause a bit of processor / disk IO e.g.
>
> Is it just underruns because the machine can't keep up?  What number of
> frames per period are you using, and how  many periods per buffer?
>
> Does ulimit -r show that you can set a high enough real time priority?
>
> > only happens when jack(dbus) is also running
>
> Did you ever try jackd only without the pulse-sink loaded?
>
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