diagnostic tools to trace the reason xruns are happening?

[Mac]

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:
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> I avoided to buy firewire, but now I've got issues with my RME PCI
> express card ;).
>
> Paul Davis on LAU some minutes ago mentioned, that firewire not only for
> Linux and Windows is problematic, but also for Mac. The best solution to
> get less issues seems to be the usage of PCI. But in the future there
> might only be PCI express slots on mobos.
>

Paul is correct, the Windows community notes plenty of firewire issues.

Unfortunately, I've found no PCI solution that will provide me 24
channels in and still be within my budget. :)