Re: [proaudio] jackdmp

["Kjetil S. Matheussen" <k.s.matheussen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Arve Barsnes wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Thomas Kuther <gimpel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mo, 23.06.08 15:44 "Arve Barsnes" <arve.barsnes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > > In my opinion, jackdmp is twice as stable as jackd. But you
> > > > need to run das_watchdog as well, since jackdmp doesn't provide
> > > > it's own watchdog.
> > > I've never heard of this before, is there anywhere I can read about
> > > this? And is it a separate program I need to install and run before I
> > > start jack?
> >
> > It's the base for jack2, so it replaces jack.
> I meant the das_watchdog thingy, what is that?

You don't need it, but in case a program locks up in the signal
processing graph, you don't have to press the reset button.
The chance of this happening is probably not very big unless you
are a developer, but it's a harmless daemon running so it
shouldn't hurt.

I'm sure there is a wikipedia article about watchdogs.