[Ardour-Users] Ardour 3 - xruns and segfaults

[Paul Davis]

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Christian Weikusat <
christian at shamanbenefit.net> wrote:

> I happily purchased ardour 3, but unfortunately it turns out to have
> severe problems with my setup.
> The same setup that has run ardour 2 for years without any xruns now
> produces lots of them. Starting ardour 3 is enough and the xruns come
> without any other action on my part. Additionally I get occasional
> segfaults, especially when opening previous (a3) projects.
> I tried switching from jack2 to jack1, but this was even worse as ardour
> got disconnected from jack every other minute. Increasing Periods/Frames
> did not help.
>
> My setup:
> Debian wheezy
> M-Audio Audiophile 24/96
> jack2 (1.9.8~dfsg.4+20120529git007cdc37-5)
>
> Jack settings (qjackctl):
> realtime
> Frames/Second: 256
> 48 kHz
> Periods: 4
> (latency 21.3 ms)
>
> As I don't need really low latency I am not using a RT-kernel (could this
> help?)
>
> I am not familiar with debugging, please explain what I can do to find/fix
> the problems.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> p.S.:
> It's a quadcore AMD Phenon and has 8 GB of RAM.
>

step one will be to try setting the number of cores that ardour will use 1
(it is in Edit > Preferences)

then we can take this off the list.

--p

ps. IRC will be even faster :)
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