$ ps x | grep jackd
 3140 ?        SLsl   0:16 /usr/bin/jackd -dalsa -r44100 -p1024 -n2 -D -Chw:Set,0 -Phw:Set
 4458 pts/1    S+     0:00 grep --color=auto jackd
$ kill -9 3140
$ ps x | grep jackd
 3140 ?        SLsl   0:16 /usr/bin/jackd -dalsa -r44100 -p1024 -n2 -D -Chw:Set,0 -Phw:Set
 4460 pts/1    S+     0:00 grep --color=auto jackd

"kill -9" has no effect.

I have seen cases where -p1024 was too big, where I only saw stability at 512 and one or two notches less.  Tell us what happens with 512.  What is your CPU and RAM? 

I wouldn't file a bug report yet, because this is probably not a bug in any code, it's probably configuration of your machine we need to figure out.  Can you post 'lspci -v' and 'lsusb -v' to this list?

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