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rosea grammostola wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Scott Ecker wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:25:36 -0700
Scott <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:lau@troutpocket.org"><lau@troutpocket.org></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Ken Restivo wrote:
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<pre wrap="">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.
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<pre wrap="">What sort of problem were you having that changing that setting fixed?
-Scott
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<pre wrap="">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.
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<pre wrap=""><!---->+1 , I think it was found in the Rosegarden wiki maybe?
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<pre wrap="">It wrongly assumes a tmpfs has to be on /tmp and nice doesn't help with
rt stuff afaik.
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<pre wrap=""><!---->I think its in the FAQ of jackaudio.org
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<pre wrap="">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.
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<pre wrap=""><!---->It would be nice if could improve the script by more feedback of people
here on LAU
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<pre wrap="">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.
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<pre wrap=""><!---->Thanks, good tip.
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>From the horse's mouth:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">It has to do with Python's lack of support for
signals in threads.
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481569">https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481569</a>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4680">http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4680</a>
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The Red Hat people have put a lot of work into fixing this, along with
Sugar.
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Python apps which initialize threads will end up waking every 1/10th of
a second, rather than idling properly.</blockquote>
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-Scott<br>
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