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2009/12/22 Josh Lawrence :

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> hey list,

>

> I've been struggling for the past couple of weeks trying to get my

> netbook to perform well as a lightweight music workstation (mostly

> synth work, light daw stuff).  I'm getting many, many xruns, clients

> getting kicked, etc.  something is clearly not right.  how do I begin

> tracking down the source of xruns?  I have an -rt kernel, a usb sound

> card using -p256 -n3, running fluxbox with only wicd running to manage

> my network.  point is, I've tried the hunt-and-peck method and

> (surprise) it hasn't done any good.  how can I go about finding out

> what exactly is tripping jack up, and what I can do to stop it?

Is your user a member of the audio group with rt permissions?
Have you tried pushing jackd's priority up? e.g. -P 70, on some

systems I've seemed to need that.
> (PS - I've said it before:  maybe I'm expecting too much of a netbook.

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>  could that be it?)

No, lots of people have done good things on netbooks. You don't say

which model you're on though.
Dan

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