hollunder@xxxxxx wrote: > On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:25:36 -0700 > Scott <lau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> Ken Restivo wrote: >> >>> But it also caught this other weird thing I'd never heard of: >>> fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 524288 >>> >>> Which was easy enough to fix. >>> >>> >> What sort of problem were you having that changing that setting fixed? >> >> -Scott >> > > I'm also very curious about this one as I've never heard of it before > and haven't seen any help that explains what it does. > > It wrongly assumes a tmpfs has to be on /tmp and nice doesn't help with > rt stuff afaik. > I'm also not quite sure about the filesystem related stuff it checks > for, like the use of atime or whatever. > > I'd say the script is a nice start but nothing to rely on or use as > definitiv guideline. > Since we're on the subject of improving performance I should share one little thing I learned recently. I use Fedora+CCRMA. The Fedora update manager is python based. After disabling the automatic update service I eradicated virtually all xruns. I asked a more knowledgeable friend why this may be and he told me that Python is/can be greedy with resources. YMMV. -Scott _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
