On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 07:28, Brad Stafford wrote: > Since I gave such a glowing review of my testing the other night that I > thought I'd report back my not so stellar results from last night. > > I left all the services running on a fully loaded machine (http, iptables, > sendmail, samba, etc...) and started jack at 128/44100/2 in real time. I > started a 20 minute recording session with ardour (no jamin yet). While > ardour was recording I dialed into the internet with my modem, opened > evolution, read email and poked around a bit with konqueror. I got zero, > nada, nil, none, no xruns whatsoever. > > Then I introduced jamin - 4 xruns in 8 mins. > > Shut down jamin and go back to only ardour - more xruns. > > Shut down all but essential services and only use ardour - more xruns. > > Seems that a bottle of xruns was opened and I can't put the cap back on. I have seen this happen. What processor are you using? Does the cpu load jump up (and stay up) when you enter in this "xrun mode"? -- Fernando