On 3/12/07, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki <eric@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 08:48:14PM +0100, Atte André Jensen wrote: > Lee Revell wrote: > > >Yes - compile it to use /dev/shm. > > I'm doing that as I type. > > But shouldn't that be possible to specofy as an runtime option? "jackd > --help" seems to suggest no, however the name of the config option > "--with-default-tmpdir" suggests that is merely a default dir hence that > some other dir can be specified later (=at runtime)... When you build jack you are building both jackd, the server, and libjack, the library that clients use to talk to the server. Both need to know where the tmpdir lives because they use it to communicate with each other. Hence, it is a compile time option.
I think the process could be improved by defaulting to /dev/shm if it exists then falling back to /tmp otherwise. There are (old) systems without /dev/shm, but I have not seen any where /dev/shm exists but is not a tmpfs. Lee
