On 8/21/06, Drucer Ninetynine <drucer99@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Could somebody please clarify can Ardour and other Linux audio apps use RAM efficiently? What I mean by this question is - let's imagine I have 4GB of RAM - are these applications aware that "oh I see, there's a lot of RAM available, let's use it" and use RAM instead of immediately writing to disk which is slow and can cause latency issues?
If you are running a realtime kernel and have a fast hard drive, I don't see where this would be an issue. I am running jack + realtime kernel + Ardour on a machine with 512MB of RAM, a firewire drive and a Delta 1010, and never have issues with the writing to disk process not being able to keep up with the audio (rarely, if ever, get xruns, either). -- Brett McCoy: Programmer by Day, Guitarist by Night http://www.alhazred.com http://www.cassandrasyndrome.com http://www.revelmoon.com
