[PlanetCCRMA] problemillas at first jack startup

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 00:10 +0200, simone www.io-sound.org wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:17 PM, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
> <nando at ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:
>         On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 22:10 +0200, simone www.io-sound.org
>         wrote:
>         > hi
>         > i can t run jack with real time enable i get this:
>         >
>         > 21:57:02.928 /usr/bin/jackd -R -dalsa -r44100 -p256 -n2 -D
>         -Chw:0
>         > -Phw:0
>         > jackd 0.109.2
>         > Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others.
>         > jackd comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
>         > This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute
>         it
>         > under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details
>         > JACK compiled with System V SHM support.
>         > cannot use real-time scheduling (FIFO at priority 10) [for
>         thread
>         > -1208875328, from thread -1208875328] (1: Operation not
>         permitted)
>         
>         
>         Check the file /etc/security/limits.conf and verify that this
>         is in
>         there:
>         
>         ----
>         ## Automatically appended by the Planet CCRMA
>         jack-audio-connection-kit
>         * - rtprio 99
>         * - memlock 4194304
>         * - nice -10
>         ----
> yep i ve already done that 
> now it just works cause i run as root to check jack in root and went
> back to user
> probably since it is the jack kit to patch limits.conf file and i ve
> installed jack kit as user 

Did you install jack from source? Or the Planet CCRMA package?

> it s all good now, fedora with planet ccrma kernel seems to be better
> performing than ubuntu studio but sometime there is a bunch load of
> work on the HD and it starts reading like crazy and eventually
> crashing jack
> 
> seems to me like a lack of memory but i haven t got this problem in
> ubuntu

It smells like you are running out of memory. Disk activity could be
related to swap activity (if nothing else is running that may be
touching disk). Do you see any messages after the crash
in /var/log/messages? How much memory do you have?

> isn t there a list of serivces that i can remove for better
> performance ?

If it is a swapping problem then you probably want to run jack without
memory locking (there is an option for that in qjackctl). That means
audio apps could be swapped out to disk, of course, and then bringing
them in could cause an xrun. I don't know what the default settings in
ubuntu might be. 

You could also try running a window manager that has a smaller memory
footprint, like xface. 

-- Fernando