Joe Hartley wrote on Fri, 16-May-2003: > > The main problem is that jack writes data to a /tmp file. It has been > > found that mounting /tmp as tmpfs (in RAM) solves the problems that many > > people have experienced with lockups while using JACK. > > I have been plagued with little xruns for a while now, and couldn't > figure out why! I'd seen something on using /tmpfs, but for some odd > reason I thought it was for people using a journalled FS on their root > filesystem. Duh! > > I applied this this morning, and have been recording some things, and > have not seen a single xrun during recording!!! Woohoooooo! Hopefully > this puts an end to that little problem. This is interesting, can you please tell us what your filesystem configuration is? I am very interested in hearing how this might help folks with different fs's on /tmp. It was a particularly dramatic improvement when /tmp was on reiserfs (when I discovered the problem/solution). If people are seeing xrun problems while using JACK, I recommend that they try one the options mentioned in my previous reply email, and let us know the results, and your fs configuration. jlc
