On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 11:05:30 -0500, jonetsu@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >The system runs 3.13.0-24-generic (Linux Mint 17 original). The >software management tool shows a same lowlatency kernel, so that's OK. Install this kernel. It might be needed to add 'threadirqs' to the grub.cfg /boot/vmlinuz line. I don't know when it became the default for the lowlatency kernel, nowadays it's not required anymore. Then follow Len's advices: On Sat, 13 Feb 2016 17:04:45 -0800 (PST), Len Ovens wrote: >mv /etc/security/limits.d/audio.conf.disabled /etc/security/limits.d/audio.conf The defaults of Ubuntu might differ to the settings recommended here: "@realtime - rtprio 99 @realtime - memlock unlimited" - http://www.jackaudio.org/faq/linux_rt_config.html Consider to edit the values to the above defaults, resp. to @audio - rtprio 99 @audio - memlock unlimited Run id if there's no group (audio) shown, you need to add the user to this group. >install rtirq. > >As you are running a delta1010 (I think), sudo >edit /etc/default/rtirq... the line that says: >RTIRQ_NAME_LIST="something something" >to: >RTIRQ_NAME_LIST="snd_ice1712" Reboot and after rebooting run /etc/init.d/rtirq status and post the output here, perhaps you need to unbind one ore the other thingy. >Do change your CPU governor from OnDemand to Performance. To see what governor you are using run cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor to set the governor to performance run echo performance|sudo tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor >Do find out how to change "swappiness" to 10 rather than 60 so the >kernel doesn't start preemptive swapping even though it is using less >than half your RAM I don't know if this is needed. Regards, Ralf _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user