Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 14:09, Paul Winkler wrote: > >>On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 12:01:43PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >>>Hi all, >>> OK, Last evening and this morning I have made good headway. It >>>appears that the main culprit was ACPI support, or some part of it. >>>With most of the ACPI stuff now disabled in the kernel build I am able >>>to run jack with no clients attached, as a root or user with the lsm >>>module modprobed, at p=8, n=2 for over 1 hour with no xruns. If my >>>calculations are correct this would be a latency of less than 0.5mS! >> >>p=8??? good lord. I'd like to see you try that with any real apps :-) >>I'm happy if I can get 128, would like to get down to 64 reliably... > > > If he tries to go any further he'll have to hack the hardware, most > probably that's getting close to the minimum transfer size on the pci > buss, right? > > -- Fernando > At -p4 I just get messages about the Jack watchdog timer timing out. This is all getting pretty silly down that low. No reason I know of to do it other then to test the limits of these new kernels.