--- Matthias =?iso-8859-1?q?Sch=F6nborn?= <mbs1303@xxxxxx wrote: Hi list, > > Lately I've got some issues with ardour repeatedly giving an error message > saying that ardour wasn't able to continue playback because the disk was too > slow and ardour couldn't fetch the data. How can this be fixed? > > I'm using Kubuntu Feisty with a low latency kernel, and in my setup I run > Jack, QSynth, Hydrogen, Rosegarden, and Ardour - is the load just too heavy > (I can hardly imagine)? Ah, and I'm using an external M-Audio Interface if > that's of any importance. > > Regards, > Matthias > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user > A message like this really does mean that your hard disk can't keep up with the demand for data. The cause of this however can come from several sources. Since you are running several programs at once, most likely synced together through the Jack transport, this means that they are probably all trying to access data from the drive(s) at the same time, and as you know, audio can be rather dense when uncompressed. So the solution? It is often recommended to have a separate disk for recording audio and whatnot to, that way, when linux needs to read info for running a program it wont interfere with the audio data access on another disk. Of course faster sata/serial disk drives will help as well. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
