On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 06:56:19AM -0500, Paul Davis wrote: > On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 3:37 AM, Jeremy Jongepier <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 02/08/2011 11:45 PM, Paul Davis wrote: > >> no, but putting JACK's tmpdir on a tmpfs filesystem does. > >> > >> current versions of JACK use /dev/shm as the location for this, no > >> /tmp (this was done years ago). > >> > >> --p > > > > Thanks for the reply Paul. But what about other applications that use > > /tmp? Could they benefit from a /tmp directory mounted on a tmpfs > > filesystem? > > programs that use the filesystem from a realtime audio thread are > incorrectly written. > a system that allows disk i/o to interfere with a realtime audio > thread is badly configured. > > ergo, i would conclude that the only realtime audio programs that can > benefit from this sort of thing are either badly written or running on > a misconfigured system. > > JACK itself isn't doing any file I/O - it just happens to use an > inter-process communication system that uses identifiers that are > related to the filesystem. you should check the jack README... iirc it still talks about this /tmp stuff. > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user -- torben Hohn _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
