[linux-audio-user] Re: Frustrated bigtime

[Noah Roberts]

On 8/20/05, Noah Roberts <roberts.noah at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just got a new laptop.  It's an Asus A6U with an AMD64 Turion ML-37,
> which runs at 2G and has 1M L2 cache.  The system also has 1G of
> 333Mhz RAM.  The HD is a 5200 80G drive.  I have installed linux
> 2.6.12, which comes with the RT-Limits patch and I patched PAM myself
> to use it.  If I run jackd without realtime priority it sounds like
> shit but it works.  If I try to make it sound better with -R then
> ardour gets disconnected from jackd because it is "too slow". 

Using an external hard drive seems to help some.  Also I added memlock
of 512000 and that helped a lot...with everything, not just jack and
ardour...the whole system is much more responsive.  What does that do
and why would everything all the sudden start up really fast
now...even non-RT apps?