On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 13:03:53 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: > On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 07:52 -0800, Ruben Lopez wrote: > >> In JACK, if the number of Maximum Ports is increased, does JACK >> use more system resources? If not, is there a down side to having >> a high number of ports? >> > it uses more shared memory, yes. each port consumes a relatively > small amount (basically period_size * 4 bytes plus a small constant > overhead). So is this overhead enough to make an significant impact on latency, or is it too minimal to worry about? Ruben
