[ardour-users] Xruns, and buffer sizes... Continued recording problems.
Wolfgang Woehl
tito at rumford.de
Tue Sep 7 10:47:10 PDT 2004
Jason Jones <j at poeticintensity.com>:
> Good to know. Is the -p setting the "buffer"? or is it the
> combination of the recording frequency, the frames, and the periods?
In a commandline like
/usr/local/bin/jackstart -R -p512 -dalsa -dhw:0 -r44100 -p1024 -n2
you see 2 p's. The first is an option to jackd: how much memory to
allocate for ports -- "port maximum" on qjackctl's setup page. The
second is an option to the alsa driver: size in bytes; p * n will be =<
what the alsa driver knows about your hardware buffer's size in order
to work; p * n / samplerate = jackd's latency, 46.4 msecs in this case.
> Great info. Would you mind describing to me exactly what an "xrun"
> is? What are it's causes? Maybe a fact vs. myth thread?
An xrun is something that gives me the creeps. Seriously, read
jackit-devel at lists.sourceforge.net -- they know all about it, almost.
Wolfgang
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