On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 09:12:43PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > 1. http://linuxaudio.org/mailarchive/lau/2010/11/6/175174 In one of the replies, Torben Hohn writes: recent (as in svn version with jack-session) versions of jackd delay advertising of ports until they are active. this will fix the described problem. So theoretically, we could eliminate the current workaround. But no need if the use_jack_plumbing: 0 setting meets your needs. Alex, with his huge setups, was the main person inconvenienced by the default mechanism calling jack_connect utility once per connection. Julien, too, encountered this issue IIRC. -- Joel Roth