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From: John Rigg <aldev@sound-man.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Xrun stack trace for 1010LT
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 16:02:15 +0000
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On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 07:23:00AM -0800, Pete wrote:
> Is there likely to be any disadvantage to running arecord rather
> than say Jack to capture? Does (say) Jack read the card in a 'better' 
> way?

jackd runs with realtime priority if -R option is specified
when starting it. Running it without -R produces xruns fairly 
often, but with -R they almost never happen on a properly configured
system. I don't know if arecord can run with realtime priority.

John