[linux-audio-user] Re: quattro

Benjamin Flaming lau at solobanjo.com
Fri Nov 7 11:09:37 EST 2003


On Friday 07 November 2003 09:43 am, Austin wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 10:31, Brian Redfern wrote:
> > Also is 256 megs of ram enough to run jackd well, or do I
> > need more like 500megs or more?
>
> Since you'll want to mount /tmp in ram, more is better.  I've monitored
> mine (with 500 MB), and it never seems to fill up, so I think that's
> adequate.

More is always better, but jackd runs without complaint alongside Hydrogen, 
zynAddSubFX, and Ardour, on my system with 256.  If you've got a few extra 
dollars, putting some more memory in couldn't hurt things, but 256 has been 
adequate for me :)

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