John,
First, is your data disk separate from your system disk? If not, this could be part of your problem. Second, what FS are you using? Ext3 is a bad choice since it puts the journal in a different location from the file. I would recommend using Reiserfs for your data partition. XFS might even be better but I haven't seen any tests on it yet. Ext2 is better than ext3 but still not as good as Reiserfs. Another thing, turn off syslogd, crond, etc before recording.
Jan
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From: "linux-audio-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <linux-audio-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of "John Anderson" <ardour@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 18 Dec 2003 13:21:25 +0200
To: "linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] The trouble with disks
On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 13:09, Robert Jonsson wrote:
> Did you put jacks tempfiles on a tmpfs partition ?
> I regularily change /tmp to a tmpfs partition in /etc/fstab these days.
>
> none /tmp tmpfs default 0 0
>
> or something like that...
I have mine at /mnt/ramfs, with jack thusly configured. I read somewhere
that ramfs is purely memory based, whereas tmpfs can use disk as backup
if it needs to expand.
bye
John
