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Excellent idea! Thanks. So I've already <br>
tested with Ardour as best I can imagine. <br>
I haven't looked at <br>
# ls -lat /var/log/* | head -20 <br>
It happens when we're playing and I'm <br>
usually blown out with that. <br>
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Given that my experience is satisfactory, <br>
then what can I do to diagnose the disk <br>
drive, controller, driver module, <what_else> <br>
??? <br>
Quick and dirty: <br>
* up the RAM from 8GB to more <br>
* replace the spinning drive with SSD <br>
* other??? <br>
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Continued thanks. <br>
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Thanks lots, Jeremy. <br>
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I haven't used hdparm; I see it does a lot (much <br>
to learn, per the man page). <br>
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I'm thinking of writing a for loop and capture <br>
start and end time: will that be useful? (Probably <br>
I'll use DASH, Python, and C, just to compare <br>
those three.) <br>
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I haven't had the need to use lspci or lsmod or <br>
most other diagnostic tools (not till now, so I'm <br>
mostly lost). <br>
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More thanks, I'll probably be able to send info <br>
tomorrow (machine is not home). <br>
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<div>specially written tests are not useful. They don't
read/write in the same pattern as Ardour. If you want a
test app, use Ardour :)<br>
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