Hey Nando, I'm running an AMD Barton 2.6 GHz processor. I'll watch for processor load tonight when I try to replicate the problem. Thanks for the tip. Brad. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano" <nando@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "A list for linux audio users" <linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 3:35 PM Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Is everyone sick of interrupts yet? > 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 >
