[linux-audio-user] Jack and tmpfs...

[Russell Hanaghan]

Jesse Chappell wrote:

>Russell Hanaghan wrote on Fri, 06-May-2005:
>
> > Can anyone tell me if it is still usefull to set up tmpfs on "/tmp" for 
> > jack? Or am I still living in the dark ages?
> 
>I think a lot of people and distributions are now building jack
>with the --with-default-tmpdir=/dev/shm  option because almost
>all modern systems have that mounted on a tmpfs already.  I believe
>it is still important for reliable jack performance.  What
>the impact of not doing it is on recent kernels, I don't know.
>
>jlc
>
>  
>
Thnx Jesse.

I need to run some RT tests to compare...

Building some new test LiveCD's (Bootable with Thac's Audio packages) 
and having the tmpfs enabled on /tmp creates a problem as that is where 
the iso gets built.

Cheers,
R~