On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 8:41 PM, cal <cal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'd be inclined to try turning hyperthreading off. It isn't going to help, and > can certainly make things worse. well, after poking around the bios, they don't allow you to turn that option off. crap... > Quite possibly true. If the cpu simply can't keep up the pace required, it > simply ain't gonna work. However, silent, catastrophic failure isn't a polite > way for the app to handle the situation. I'm interested in improving that, > especially with regard to "zombies at every patch switch". ok, and if that's what the final word is, then I'm just going to have to be OK with that. however, I'm curious - when I avoid jack altogether and just run the app using ALSA only, patch switches work just dandy. obviously that really outside the bounds of what you're trying to do (improve jack), but I'm less inclined to believe that the processor is at fault - if it was, wouldn't the whole thing bomb out, regardless if I'm using ALSA or jack? IANAP, b/t/w. :) -- Josh Lawrence http://www.hardbop200.com _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
