Comment 6 for bug 659025

Revision history for this message
Pander (pander) wrote :

From FFADO maintainer:

   Bug: Jack crashes and consumes 100% CPU after resume from suspend

   Suggestion:
       FFADO was not set up to deal cleanly with suspend and resume, mainly
       because the nature of Firewire interfaces makes this a very difficult
       problem to solve. In particular, the device itself exists outside of
       the suspend infrastructure so FFADO has no guarantee about the
       device's status when a resume occurs. In fact, because of the way
       firewire audio devices work, the streaming would need to be formally
       shut down before suspend and restarted on resume. Jackd's design
       does not lend itself to doing this (although it could perhaps be
       achieved with sufficient time and effort).

       Interestingly, a follow up comment in 2012 suggested that jack1 dealt
       with suspend-resume better than jack2.

       A partial solution to the issue of shutting jackd down before suspend
       may be one of the jack session managers which have since been
       developed. At this stage it is unlikely that FFADO will gain formal
       support for suspend/resume unless someone steps up to write the code.
       I am unsure how many people would make use of such a feature if it
       were to be implemented.