On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 05:32:18PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 21:44 +0000, rob wrote: [...] > > Did you try 3 periods, 48kHz? > > > > ah, no, I didn't understand what periods were, I guess, so I didn't try > that option. 48k appears to bethe default sampling rate, but -n3 fixes > the problem -- in fact there are no xruns at all once I add that switch. > yay! I do get a message in jackd: > delay of 20690.000 usecs exceeds estimated spare time of 20672.000; > restart ... [...] I got rid of these messages by making sure my processor doesn't switch the frequency while I am running jack. You can do this with cpufreq-set -g performance There's also a nice applet for the gnome panel, that can do this. Hope that helps. Burkhard