Re: [linux-audio-user] question about jackd/qjackctl options

From: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki <eric@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Sat Apr 01 2006 - 21:27:31 EEST

Paul Davis wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 13:33 +0300, Sampo Savolainen wrote:
>>On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 03:02 -0500, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
>>>> -s, --softmode
>>>> Ignore xruns reported by the ALSA driver. This makes JACK less
>>>> likely to disconnect unresponsive ports when running without
>>>> --realtime.
>>>So, to be clear, this means that softmode and realtime are effectively
>>>mutually exclusive?
>>In practice yes. There is no point in running both in softmode and
>>realtime. The worst case scenario is that a client gets deadlocked
>>within the process() thread and takes over jackd (in the absolutely
>>worst case, the whole computer) as the jack watchdog thread doesn't kill
>>the client.
> actually, this is the opposite of the intent.
>
> softmode is there mostly for people who want to use JACK in, for
> example, live situations where the occasional xrun is not a disaster.
> they want realtime latency settings, but don't want any clients kicked
> out if there is an xrun. if the watchdog doesn't work in softmode, its a
> bug.

Thanks Paul. This is what I was hoping to hear. At RFA they probably
don't want Rivendell's caed (core audio engine daemon) getting kicked
out by jack in the middle of a broadcast.

-Eric Rz.
Received on Sun Apr 2 00:15:02 2006

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