On Thursday 31 January 2008, Julien Claassen wrote: > Hi folks! > OK beat me round the head with a rubber-bat. I gave /dev/shm as jack's > tmpdir. Not good. Now LS runs fine. BUT!!! > But still when I do the following - and this is repeatable: > start fluidsynth like this: > fluidsynth -a jack -j -r 48000 nd_bass_guitar.sf2 > Start ecasound and use it: > ecasound -B:rtlowlatency -b:64 -r 30 -c -a:1 -i jack_auto,fluidsynth \ > -o test.wav -a:2 -i null -pn:met,120 -a:3 -i monitor.wav -a:2,3 -o > jack_alsa > > And then after working finish ecasound. Fluidsynth looses its connection > because JACK simply dies, saying: > jackd watchdog: timeout - killing jackd > Aborted > This is not nice, though sufferable. But as sufferable still contains "to > suffer", it would be nice to abolish it. > Can anyone help here? > Kindest regards > Julien I'm not sure this is a jack problem. The dependence on the size of the loaded data files rather hints at problems in the clients that only show in realtime mode.. Maybe try a] allowing apps to mlock more memory b] using a longer timeout for jack [see manpage] /dev/shm is actually a rather good choice for the jack temp directory.. [when there's a shmfs mounted there] Flo -- Palimm Palimm! http://tapas.affenbande.org _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
