On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Fons Adriaensen <fons@linuxaudio.org> wrote:
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 09:07:37AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:

> If you used jack_iodelay, it would do the math for you and show you how
> much extra latency is bing caused by the hardware (rather than the period
> size).

jack_delay will do this as well, use the -E option.

and make sure your distribution has packaged and included the new version of jack_delay :)
 
of course, since jack2 still isn't sharing the tools/ or headers in the JACK git repository, the presence of jack_iodelay there doesn't really help most Linux users at all since they don't have it either.