On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 03:18:42PM +0200, Dragan Noveski wrote: [snip] > switching on the acpi in general, but switching off the other acpi stuff > like fan, button etc. resolved some issues here. [snip] Thanks for the tip, I'll have to recompile my kernel again. But still I don't think this is the cause for Julien's problem. I was having very similar symptoms after installing the latest jack from svn last week. At the same time a new version of gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad got into Debian testing, with the new jackaudiosink. The gstreamer update came a bit bad time, because now I don't know if the frequent zombification, time-outing and watchdog barking is due to some new jack bug or the gstreamer applications constantly entering and leaving the processing graph, triggering some old misfeature (it seems that the time-outs can happen at random times, but I'm not sure, because mostly they happen on graph changes and on my system the graph can change unexpectedly due to a cron job). Anyway, my solution was to add a --timeout parameter (with value 4000), and now jackd has been running happily for a day without the watchdog coming and killing everyone in sight. Pulseaudio and Ingen has been mysteriously zombified only once, as opposed to every 15 minutes, and everything else has been working fine, although there haven't been much stress on the system during the last day. A related question: what does this error message exactly mean? subgraph starting at <client> timed out (subgraph_wait_fd=<number>, status = 0, state = Running) Every client is only connected directly to the sound card playback ports, so the subgraph shouldn't be particularly long. Does the error mean that the said client didn't return from its processing function fast enough or what? After that message jack used to stop delivering audio and then after a few seconds the watchdog would come and eat everyone. I still have got that error twice (the Pulseaudio and Ingen zombifications), but the whole jackd hasn't died anymore. -- Tanu Kaskinen _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
