Am Mit, 2003-08-20 um 19.07 schrieb Jack O'Quin: > Hartmut Z Noack <symposion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > 2.)Many xruns, (some after 2 seconds, others after 2 mins, mostly within > > 40 secs or so - sometimes i had testrecordings of unbroken 10 minutes) > > I doubt your problem is hardware. My system is similar to yours: > Athlon XP 1800+, 256MB DDR, EIDE disk, M-Audio Delta-66; yet it runs > JACK reliably down to about -p64 (even -p32 but with some overruns). > > Check your hdparms. But, most of all I recommend making sure you're > running the low latency kernel patches. This is essential. The JACK > FAQ has some useful instructions... > > <http://jackit.sourceforge.net/docs/faq.php#a5> > > Regards, That is interesting, i hoped, i could avoid to recompile if i run everything as root (the recommendation regarding the patches pointed to the use of jackstart and to running jackapps as non-root) guess i have to read some more and "take the risk" to recompile :-| thanks