Re: [Linuxsampler-devel] RAM sampler module proposal

[Matthias W. <mat...@in...>]

On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 11:53:15PM +0100, Benno Senoner wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 22:57, Matthias Weiss wrote:
> >> 
> > Having jackd loading plugins, that would also mean if
> > a plugin crashes, it takes with it the daemon, right?
> 
> Yes, that's the price we have to pay but crashing is not an option.

My concern is that jackd is a "single point of error", if it crashes all
other jack clients won't run.

> Even when only the sampler module goes down it will still break your
> work. I prefer achieving rock solid 2.1 msec latency with the sampler
>  than having the soundserver not crashing in the case of a plugin
> failure in exchange of giving up precious msecs of real time response.

I'd not give up the stability advantage of an out-of-process jack client
for some 1/10 msec's. On the other hand if the difference in latency is 
a factor 2 or more I think it's worth the price. A comparsion of both variants
would be enlightening. I'd like to write some test code but I won't have
time for that before december.

matthias