On Sat, 3 May 2003 12:06 am, Mark Knecht wrote: > > dear list, > > > > i'm running Debian kernel version 2.4.20 with ext3 an an Asus L3 laptop > > with a Hammerfall HDSP, and my xruns using Jack are frequent and nasty! > > i would say in the nieghborhood of every 10-20 seconds, i get an xrun of > > 10-200 ms. > > <SNIP> > Various emails about converting to reiserfs... > <SNIP> > > If the idea here is that the xruns are caused by the ext3 journaling > operations, wouldn't a simple test be to mount the ext3 partition as ext2 > and prove it before doing all the work to move to reiserfs only to find out > it's something else? Or possibly change the journaling commit time to > reduce or increase the xruns? > > Maybe it's too late for that. Sorry... I think it was more to do with outright lockups using the ext3 code, rather than xruns. Yes, switching to ext2 is a good way to test if ext3 is at fault (I did this, and yes it was). I'm using reiserfs as a workaround (I'd prefer to have any journalling on my larger filesystems than none at all), although from what I've read reiserfs might be better suited to audio applications anyway. t -- GPG : http://n12turbo.com/tarragon/public.key
