On 8/20/05, Noah Roberts <roberts.noah@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I just got a new laptop. It's an Asus A6U with an AMD64 Turion ML-37, > which runs at 2G and has 1M L2 cache. The system also has 1G of > 333Mhz RAM. The HD is a 5200 80G drive. I have installed linux > 2.6.12, which comes with the RT-Limits patch and I patched PAM myself > to use it. If I run jackd without realtime priority it sounds like > shit but it works. If I try to make it sound better with -R then > ardour gets disconnected from jackd because it is "too slow". Using an external hard drive seems to help some. Also I added memlock of 512000 and that helped a lot...with everything, not just jack and ardour...the whole system is much more responsive. What does that do and why would everything all the sudden start up really fast now...even non-RT apps?
