Re: xrun problems. (Was Re: Introduction to Ardour 3.0 MIDI)

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Am 28.03.2011 23:15, schrieb Dan Capp:
Hi Peder. Thanks for your assistance. Info below:

What CPU do you have (grep "model name" /proc/cpuinfo)?

AMD Phenom(tm) 9750 Quad-Core Processor

I had a Presonus Firebox running with Frames/Periods 64/3 on a ancient Pentium4 with zero xruns. The very same Firebox spat out xruns by the score if running it on a Lenovo Laptop with Intel Dualcore with 256/3.

Firewire Interfaces tend to be very picky regarding the chipset oft the FW-Controller:

http://ffado.org/?q=node/251

 and they amok, if there is something on the bus blocking them.


Have you made the limits.conf hack to enable realtime and are you

I'm afraid I have no idea.

the file /etc/security/limits.conf should have the following lines at its end:


@audio - rtprio 86
@audio - memlock unlimited


in Ubuntu there is a file called "audio.conf" in a folder named /etc/security/limits.d . In Fedora the file is called 99jack.conf.

All with the same lines. You need to be member in the group "audio" (or "jackuser" under Fedora)

I have a real-time kernel and I have it set to on
when I use firewire, but off when I use alsa. All music production (when I
get the one-off xruns) happens only when using firewire, and thus with
realtime on.

running jack in realtime (with say -P70)?

Yes I have jack in realtime, on exactly P70, but ONLY in firewire mode. Alsa
mode is set to default priority and non-realtime. I have QjackCtl setup so
that it launches and starts in Alsa-mode when I boot my computer. When I do
music stuff and turn my firewire device on I switch to the "firewire" preset
which is realtime P70.

Are you running jack with ?ber-low latency; what's the frames/period
setting?

In firewire mode I have frames/period setting of 256 with buffer on 3 = a
latency of 17.4 msec.

On a system like yours any Firewire-Interface should do much better (see above).

Ever tried a Live-DVD like AVLinux or Pure:Dyne?

Alsa mode is much higher on 1024 and around 70 msec
(but I believe that should be irrelevant as I don't do any audio/midi jack
connection stuff in Alsa mode.

-Dan




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