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Steve Harris wrote:
> back of the envelope maths:

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> soundcard ports are always assigned,

> even if theres nothing connected:                   22

> hydrogen, 32*2:                                     64

> ardour uses something like 4 per mono track,

> plus 2 more?                                        34

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> so thats getting to 120ish, so you could easily have run out.

Even if I am not using them all?  I calculate I had maybe 12 - 15

actually allocated ( will try to verify this tonight when I am back in

the studio )
>>After I restarted jackd (and not making any changes in qjackctl),

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>>Hydrogen refused to start (it would segfault on startup, but if I

>>started Hydrogen without jackd it would startup fine), and when I

>>reopened the same session in Ardour, the entire screen would freeze

>>(except the mouse).

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>

> Thats not good, and I dont know why its doing tht offhand, it could be

> because theres some stale files or pipes in your jack tmp directory?

Yeah, that's what I was wondering, or perhaps a zombied process
> strace-ing or gdb-ing hydrogen might give a clue. 
I stared working at that but had to give up the hunt as it was very late

and I needed sleep. :-)
-- Brett

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