Thanks lots, Jeremy. I haven't used hdparm; I see it does a lot (much to learn, per the man page). I'm thinking of writing a for loop and capture start and end time: will that be useful? (Probably I'll use DASH, Python, and C, just to compare those three.) I haven't had the need to use lspci or lsmod or most other diagnostic tools (not till now, so I'm mostly lost). More thanks, I'll probably be able to send info tomorrow (machine is not home). On 07/14/2014 11:08 PM, Jeremy
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On 07/15/2014 06:58 AM, jim wrote:Hiya, I've got a Zareason media box http://zareason.com/shop/MediaBox-5440.html with 8 GB RAM running AVlinux (a debian flavor); I use Ardour pretty much exclusively, that and the vi editor. The system can record a single track with no problem. It occasionally fails if I try to record two simultaneous tracks. If regularly fails if I try to record four or more tracks. The complaint is always that the disk system cannot keep up. Question: would just blindly replacing the spinning disk with SSD be a likely fix and an overall good idea? Question: what info should I capture and email to get appropriate help? Question: what commands will yield useful info for this diagnosis? (I like the command line but forget which commands do what other than the usual suspects for basic use.) Hopefully, with thanks, jim in SFHello Jim, That's really weird, disk IO shouldn't be an issue with such a machine. Maybe you could test the disk throughput and post the results here together with the command you used? You could use tools like hdparm or dd, there are quite some examples out there. And what is the output of cat /proc/mounts for the drive in question? Bye, Jeremy |
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