On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 03:57:40 +0100, Robert Jonsson wrote: > What I have noticed is subtle, I have xruns in both situations but the > rate increases noticeably. > I've been running patched kernels but there are all kinds of parameters > (as I'm sure you know) to tweak before it is sufficiently solid. > I would consider my findings pretty much expected behaviour with a less > then perfectly tuned system. > > The real problem is that it's so very very hard to tune a system > sufficiently without hours and hours of work. It would be very nice if > there was some way to automate, atleast parts of, the process.
I didn't have to put any real effort in on my PC (RH8, ide, athlon), I just installed a patched kernel from Planet CCRMA and rebooted. I get xruns at 64 samples/period (and 128 with heavy disk load), but I think that's a problem with the ext3 filesystem - others have reported this too. I'm happy at 256 so I haven't bothered remounting the partition to find out. JACK/no JACK makes no noticable difference to the xruns. - Steve
