[PD] glitches when streaming UDP

[Simon Iten]

in my years using pd on linux i have never gotten it to work with low latency and jack.
same as you i always got glitches and dropouts.

with alsa it is fine…

> On 29 Jan 2018, at 10:25, Roman Haefeli <reduzent at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hey all
> 
> I'm working on a patch that transmits audio through UDP. The patch runs
> totally smooth on macOS (10.10 and 10.11) with Pd 0.48-1 and JACK as
> back-end. On the Linux machines I tested (all Ubuntu 16.04) with the
> same version of Pd I get a lot of glitches, although I'm using very
> similar Jack settings (128 frames/period, 3 periods). Glitches happen
> more frequently when UDP streaming is on, but don't completely
> disappear when I stop UDP transmission. So, relatively to macOS, Pd
> seems to be more prone to glitches on Linux. 
> 
> Just to be sure that my Linux machine is up to task I tuned it with the
> help of [1]. I get very stable performance with softwares like Ardour,
> even under load. It's only Pd that creates glitches. I also observed
> that Pd experiences drop outs while jack reports not glitches. I
> believe to have observed that ardour only glitches when jack does. So,
> it seems Pd is less "tightly coupled" to jack, does that sound right? 
> 
> Is there anything I can do to tune Pd for stable low latency (on
> Linux)? 
> 
> BTW: What happened to those messages when running with -rt:
> 
> "priority 6 scheduling enabled.
> priority 8 scheduling enabled."
> 
> Roman
> 
> 
> [1] https://github.com/raboof/realtimeconfigquickscan
> 
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