On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 13:08 +0100, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > fons adriaensen escribe: > > > How much memory does your machine have? Is it swapping when this > > > slowdown occurs? > > > > Good question. This really looks like an 'out of memory' problem. > > Just 160MB but then why does it swap only when jackd is running > realtime? Because jackd only locks all its memory in realtime mode. Try adding this line to /etc/security/limits.conf: * stack hard 512 then reboot. This will save you 7.5MB of unswappable memory per thread. Lee
