[PlanetCCRMA] Re: zombies

[Jonathan Segel]

>
>>  i'm having a lot of problems where apps become zombified and exit
>>  from jack, usually when they are backgrounded in favor of soem other
>>  manipulations.
>
>Backgrounded means typing "ctrl-Z" and then "bg" in a terminal? You

lack of terminology here, sorry. i meant just when not in GUI 
foregroud. for example, if i have hydrogen and znadsubfx both open 
and patched in jack patch bay to out 1&2, then i move from zyn to 
change something in hydrogen (even while not playing) zyn removes 
itself  from jack. it no longer appears in the patch bay, i can't see 
how to reinstate it. in hydrogen, on the other hand, there is a 
button to restart audio, which sometimes works.


>  > some can be refreshed, but others don't seem to have
>>  that option. how can i reinstate audio connections?
>>  and more importantly, what causes this and how can i avoid it?
>
>Jack calls all of its connected apps constantly, and each app has to
>respond very rapidly and supply samples to the jack engine (no
>exceptions, no delay). If that does not happen jack is delayed and if
>the delay is too long it cannot supply samples to the sound card in time
>and a click occurs. Jack cannot work in those conditions and ejects the
>application from its set of connected apps.

i  do see that the DIO button in PD is constantly turngin red off and 
on, even when nothign is happening. what could be going on?


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