On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 12:55:18 +0300 Sampo Savolainen <v2@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 08:25, Florian Schmidt wrote: > > Starting a new jack client in itself won't produce xruns. Also, > > cleanly shutting down a jack client will not in itself produce xruns > > [iirc]. But it seems that many, if not most, jack apps, get some > > part of the RT operation stuff not right. Especially start up and > > shutdown. > > Actually, that's not entirely correct. I've been talking to Paul about > this. The xruns created by exiting clients is due to jackd having to > rework it's internals. When doing this reordering, jackd has to lock > the data it's modifying and sometimes (very often) there will be an > xrun because the audio thread is waiting for the lock to be released. > Ah, and btw: Shouldn't the audio thread just try the lock and if it fails to claim it produce a period of silence? What spot in the code is this? flo
