[linux-audio-user] terrible sound with jack SOLVED. but no sound in traverso?

[Burkhard Ritter]

On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 05:32:18PM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 21:44 +0000, rob wrote:
[...]
> > Did you try 3 periods, 48kHz?
> > 
> 
> ah, no, I didn't understand what periods were, I guess, so I didn't try
> that option.  48k appears to bethe default sampling rate, but -n3 fixes
> the problem -- in fact there are no xruns at all once I add that switch.
> yay!  I do get a message in jackd:
> delay of 20690.000 usecs exceeds estimated spare time of 20672.000;
> restart ...
[...]

I got rid of these messages by making sure my processor doesn't switch
the frequency while I am running jack. You can do this with
cpufreq-set -g performance
There's also a nice applet for the gnome panel, that can do this.

Hope that helps.

Burkhard