Re: [Linuxsampler-devel] RAM sampler module proposal

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

On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 10:56:49PM +0000, Steve Harris wrote:
> > My concern is that jackd is a "single point of error", if it crashes all
> > other jack clients won't run.
> 
> Thats why it's /really/ stable :)

I guess I know what you're saying ;-), though my thought was on inherent
stability.

>  
> > 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.
> 
> The difference is that it allows you to (possibly) get a bit lower
> latency. With out-of-process on my current system I can get down to 128
> sample blocks, with in process and changing my filesystem I could get down
> to 64. Hoever I generaly run at 256, as I dont really care about latency
> that much, and I can get more processing done at 256.

Whith what applications do you get this result?

Paul Davis speculated on the lad list that a simple client might just
have the same latency as an in-process client - as said, I'd like to
test it out.

matthias