Re: [LAU] netjack1/2

On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:49:58 +0100
torbenh <torbenh@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 04:15:05PM -0500, David Santamauro wrote:
> >
> > After reading that last post about the distributed studio[1], it
> > made me think of how network transfer of 40 channels of audio into
> > and out of up to 6 machines is possible.
> >
> > As a simple test, I wired 2 machines over a 10/100Mb connection,
> > private network, 1 router and 1 switch. I fired up the tools as
> > described in the how-to[2] then opened up xmms, wired it to netjack
> > (on the client) and routed the server netjack to my main outs...
> > sounded great! until I noticed xruns occasionally.
> >
> > So I guess my question is simply: is netjack2 really that capable
> > and if so, what are the tweaks involved to get seemless audio using
> > it.
> >
> > Does anyone here use netjack2 ... and if so, what is the primary
> > purpose?
>
> are you running the slave jackd with -S ?
> thats necessary.
> [insert some random bitching about netjack2 here]
>
>

Just closing this topic off in case someone stumbles upon it from an
internet search: I monitored my network traffic and found mountd
transmitted, I think every 20s, from port 771 to 2049 and that
coincided with my xruns. I umounted my 2 NFS drives and haven't had an
xrun since -- at least not with 2 channels.
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Received on Sun Feb 14 00:15:03 2010