Duh, that was really silly. Sorry to bother you guys about something that turns out to be so trivial, it really seemed like legit issue to me... Apparently, I was using a non-patched kernel thinking it was a realtime kernel. Carlo Carlo Capocasa wrote: > Hi all! > > Florian Schmidt was kind enought to point out that I can increase my > system performance by increasing the priority of both the Jack daemon > and the IRQ that my trusty'ol bebob device is hitched to. > > I temporarily gave up on putting the device onto another IRQ and will > leaving that up to the kernel developers to sort out; what I am > interested in right now is how to increase the priority of IRQ 10 on my > system. > > Florian suggested simply increasing the priority of the 'IRQ 10' > interrupt handling process; but on my system, there is no interrupt > handling process 'IRQ 10', or for any other IRQ, for that matter. > > How can I increase the priority of 'IRQ 10' on my Debian based system? > > Help much appreciated. > > Carlo > > PS: upping JackD priority alone took care of 60% of xruns; thanks Florian! > >