On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 20:47, Mark Knecht wrote: > I think the point that Jan made in another thread somewhere on this tmpfs > subject (and I may be wrong here so don't take this as gospel) is that since > Jack is now compiled to use a specific FIFO location, if you change the > location in fstab then you *must* recompile Jack to point it to the new > location. I'm just being extra careful in asking you if you actually did > that recompile. Oh, right. Yeah, I did recompile to use the location where I have tmpfs mounted. And jackd --version gives me the same directory. > > Only at 48k - that's all I've got. > > > Because that's all the sound card will do? It won't run at 44.1K? The card is fine at 44.1 - it's a Terratec EWS88MT. I just haven't used 48K for my ardour sessions. > An idea? Have you tried running an 'all software' experiment, or 'almost all > software', to understand whether it's really the disk causing this? What > happens if you load up a CD with Alsaplayer and play it, and then patch in > some Jack clients like freqtreak, tapiir, etc., multiple times to create a > lot of Jack traffic, but little or no hard disk traffic? You can create an > arbitrarily complicated setup to maybe explore whether the problem is with > Jack, or possibly with your motherboard, it's memory usage, other > applications that are running. If these work right, but then a disk based > operation fails, you have more info.... Sounds good, I'll try that. bye John
