Re: [Jack-Devel] JACK 2 crashes after a long time?

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DateThu, 07 Jul 2011 10:57:00 -0600
From David Nielson <[hidden] at comcast dot net>
ToPaul Davis <[hidden] at linuxaudiosystems dot com>
Cc[hidden] at jackaudio dot org
In-Reply-ToPaul Davis Re: [Jack-Devel] JACK 2 crashes after a long time?
On 07/07/2011 10:44 AM, Paul Davis wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:33 PM, David Nielson<[hidden]>  wrote:
>> I've had limited ability to test this in detail.
>>
>> Last year when I was playing with convolution reverb to augment a room's
>> acoustics, I found that JACK 2 would crash after 8 -9 hours of operation.
>> The computer would lock up hard and would not respond to anything but the
>> reset button.
>>
>> Last night I thought I would check to see if it still did this, and was
>> astonished to find my computer still working after 14 hours and 15 minutes!
>> And within seconds of moving the mouse, the computer froze.
>>
>> I realize super-long sessions are probably not common, but at some point in
>> the future I'm going to want to use Ardour to record uninterrupted multi-day
>> sessions, so I'm wondering if there's anything I can do to chase this down
>> and resolve it?
> i have no specific data or suggestions, but i will say that my
> hand-wavy gut-instinct is that this sort of thing tends to be often
> associated with the ALSA device driver as much as with JACK. you've
> got some (very painful) debugging ahead of you.
>
> for whatever its worth (not much) i run jack1 on my machine typically
> for 4-7 days at a time (RME HDSP interface), occasionally longer.
Yeah, my next thought was to try jack 1. I'll set that test up now...
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