On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 11:06:28 +0100, Hartmut Z Noack wrote: > > Anyone want to defend the use of artsd? > > i tend to say: "me not." but it ahhmmm... depends, > > 1.) would jack be "scalable" enough to run xmms and kolf with sound > enabled at the same time on a Pentium1/166MHz as arts does with arts for > my 9 year old Daughter ? Depends how much ram you have - jack requires quite a lot. The cpu load is pretty low though, for largish buffer sizes. > 2.)would jack be as stable and powerfull than as it is when optimized > for pro-Apps only ? No - adding things like sample format negotiation and sample rate conversion would seriously hurt JACK. - Steve
