From: Joern Nettingsmeier (nettings_at_folkwang-hochschule.de)
Date: 01/10/04 06:31 EST
Message-ID: <3FFFE28A.2000601@folkwang-hochschule.de> From: Joern Nettingsmeier <nettings@folkwang-hochschule.de> Subject: Re: [Ardour-users] Still a new guy Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 12:31:22 +0100 Jim Dory wrote: > Joern Nettingsmeier wrote: > >> >> >> be sure to have your jack tmpdir on a non-journalled fs or better yet >> on a tmpfs filesystem. but then you probably already have, or you'd >> have seen much more xruns. >> >> >> >> >> > Thanks everyone for helping here. Great stuff to help with the research. > So I was over at the Gentoo forums and reading some posts there on the > subject. One fellow (might be on this list - at least he recommended it > to me) said to another guy, who just complained of xruns while using the > jack-audio-connection-kit, that it was critical to emerge it with the > jack-tmpfs flag. I guess you would have to know something of Gentoo for > that to make sense. But I'm not sure if he was talking about installing > jack in general or not, because I don't believe I did that. He also said > this: > > "The jack-tmpfs tells it to use the --with-default-tmpdir=/dev/shm > compile option. Gentoo > sets this filesystem up in the default layout, so it should be there..." sounds good. with that option, it should work fine. > So hopefully I can figure out how to set the tmpdir to use this tmpfs, > providing it is there.I'm in my dual boot Suse system right now so can't > check - suppose df -k would show it? no. boot into gentoo and do "mount" - it will show you all mounted filesystems, including /dev/shm if it's there. > Otherwise, I think I have gentoo set up on Reiser. Lots of space that I > could shrink down for a new-different partition of whatever file system, > as long as I can do it without mucking up my overall install. the jack-tmpdir does not need much space (a couple of bytes iirc). it is only used to store some sort of "token" to let the jack clients know who's next to start working. when you use a tmpfs on /dev/shm, it will be entirely in RAM anyway. -- In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics! - Homer Simpson Jörn Nettingsmeier Kurfürstenstr 49, 45138 Essen, Germany http://spunk.dnsalias.org (my server) http://www.linuxaudiodev.org (Linux Audio Developers) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms. Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html _______________________________________________ Ardour-users mailing list Ardour-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ardour-users
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