Re: "random" jamin crashes

Sampo Savolainen wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 20:36 -0400, Dana Simmons wrote:
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>> I've been experiencing random jamin crashes for several months, and
>> have only recently been able to pin point one (possibly of multiple)
>> cause. I only seem to have trouble with jamin when I have it routed as
>> an insert on the master bus in ardour, in other words ardour pre-fader
>> insert -> jamin in -> ardour pre-fader insert -> ardour master out.
>> When the ardour play head rolls over  the beginnings of some fader
>> automation I have programed, jamin crashes, every time, same position
>> with a simple "Aborted" error on the command line. I'm sure you can
>> imagine my frustration. I'm using jamin 0.95.0 from the Debian Lenny
>> repositories with ardour 2.4.1. Any help would be much apreciated.
>>     
>
> Hi,
>
> Sorry to come in so late to the conversation. There is a nasty bug in
> jackd which causes it to wig out. I wouldn't be all too surprised if
> this was caused by the same problem. There are developers working on the
> issue but no progress has been made - mostly because this is not just a
> bug but a design flaw of sorts.
>
> In the meantime, I suggest running jackd at a much higher buffer size
> (at least 512). That leaves jackd more time to process and should
> circumvent the issue.
>
> Please tell us if this helps.
>
>
>  Sampo
>
>   
I'll keep this in mind during my next batch of work/testing, thanks for
the info, I'll be sure and let the list know how it works out.


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