Re: [LAU] tracking down xruns

Dan S wrote:
> 2009/12/22 Josh Lawrence <hardbop200@email-addr-hidden>:
>> hey list,
>>
>> I've been struggling for the past couple of weeks trying to get my
>> netbook to perform well as a lightweight music workstation (mostly
>> synth work, light daw stuff). I'm getting many, many xruns, clients
>> getting kicked, etc. something is clearly not right. how do I begin
>> tracking down the source of xruns? I have an -rt kernel, a usb sound
>> card using -p256 -n3, running fluxbox with only wicd running to manage
>> my network. point is, I've tried the hunt-and-peck method and
>> (surprise) it hasn't done any good. how can I go about finding out
>> what exactly is tripping jack up, and what I can do to stop it?
>
> Is your user a member of the audio group with rt permissions?
>
> Have you tried pushing jackd's priority up? e.g. -P 70, on some
> systems I've seemed to need that.
>
>> (PS - I've said it before: maybe I'm expecting too much of a netbook.
>> could that be it?)
>
> No, lots of people have done good things on netbooks. You don't say
> which model you're on though.

I believe we have a list member regularly using his EEEPC quite well in
performance, maybe he has some tips? I also seem to recall he had a link
  where he put up his customized RT kernel packages optimized for EEEPC?

-- 
David
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