It was the reason i removed it, Patrick. Every time the pulse server would crash, or freeze, jack would get taken down as well. I don't know, frankly, if this was a problem in my setup, but the install was a standard one, without tweaks, at the time. Alex. On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hartmut Noack wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Paul Davis schrieb: >> >>> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 9:49 AM, alex stone <compose59@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>>> This is, i believe, at the heart of the problem. >>>> >>>> As a user looking in from the outside, it appears odd that the pulse >>>> team didn't jump onboard with jack, >>>> >>> "they" (i.e. Lennart) know all about JACK. JACK and Pulse superfically >>> some similarities ("sound server") but at a deeper level have almost >>> diametrically opposed goals. >>> >> >> Do you think, that Jack and Pulse could see each other as perfect >> abstractions: >> Pulse sees Jackd as just another "soundcard"-Port it can deliver its >> stream to - the same as it does with alsa >> Jackd sees Pulse as just another application that delivers a stream - >> the same as it is related to Zyandd or Ardour >> ? >> >> Or would realtime-issues in Pulse still destabilize Jackd if Pulse runs >> as a jack-client? >> >> > > Is the situation with pulse and jack really this bad that pulse can > actually take down jack if it has a runtime issue? > > I don't recall anyone mentioning that scenario over the past few years. > It wouldn't surprise me though as pulse is a unique beast and may put > strain on the system if it is competing with jack. > > > > Patrick Shirkey > Boost Hardware Ltd > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user > -- Parchment Studios (It started as a joke...) _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user