On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 08:26 -0500, Josh Lawrence wrote: > On 4/1/06, Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > actually, this is the opposite of the intent. > > > > softmode is there mostly for people who want to use JACK in, for > > example, live situations where the occasional xrun is not a disaster. > > they want realtime latency settings, but don't want any clients kicked > > out if there is an xrun. if the watchdog doesn't work in softmode, its a > > bug. > > > > --p > > Wow, this explains a lot for me. I'm trying to use it live, but I > have never checked the softmode options. Many of my apps produce > xruns when they start, and thus the client disconnects. It's good to > know there may be a way to avoid this. my description was actually misleading. i apologize for that. the main point of softmode is to ignore ALSA-reported xruns. it is not related to client handling. this has often been requested, but its actually much harder to do than it may appear. --p
