[linux-audio-user] Current merrits of tmpfs with Jack

[Russell Hanaghan]

Lee Revell wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 11:14 -0800, Russell Hanaghan wrote:
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>>Hi to all and Merry Xmas, Festivus, whatever your preference!
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>>Is there a major performance hit that anyone can speak to if they do not 
>>utilize tmpfs on /tmp when using jack?
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>Yes.
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>>I'm looking to master a Livecd and to create it, it stores it's data in 
>>/tmp. If I have tmpfs set on /tmp, the mastering of the cd falls out 
>>becauges 1 gb of memory is insufficient....yet, I want /tmp to have a 
>>tmpfs ultimately on the bootable cd.
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>>Any thoughts?
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>Configure JACK to use /dev/shm and leave /tmp on your root FS.
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>Lee
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Jack then needs to be compiled as such right? That is, specifically to 
use /dev/shm as a tmpfs?

thanks
R~