>> I am trying to setup my new laptop to be a very friendly >> environment for multimedia editing and software > Currently I use: > tmpfs for /tmp > > The /tmp setting makes much more of a difference than anything else > though... I would really recommend that people use tmpfs for /tmp (mounts /tmp in ram). I googled "tmpfs" and there were some very good articles out there. I've been meaning to pose this question for a while, so maybe this is a good time to do it. Am I the only one out there that has their "Record Directory" mounted as a tmpfs? I went out and bought a half a gig of ram and brought my ram up to over 700 Megs of Ram. Now I just move all my audio files into the "Record Directory" (in other words, in Ram) and record out of that. Of course, I periodically copy the newly recorded file to the hard drive. The only thing is... I can't vouch for this approach because I havn't had more than 2 (sterio 48000) wavs playing and 1 sterio 48000 wav being recorded to at the same time. But there hasn't been so much as one hiccup. But I guess the reason I haven't mentioned about this approach is because I've (many times before) thought I stumbled on to something great, only to find out that it wasn't as good as it looked on the outside. But I have the feeling I'm going to keep getting good performance from this meathod. And with the price of Ram these days, it's an affordable approach. Rocco
