[linux-audio-user] Some various questions about system configuration..

[Lee Revell]

On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 21:57 -0500, Dana Olson wrote:
> I am still new to a lot of this stuff, and I searched back a bit
> through the archives (manually, as I don't know of a search
> functionality) to see if there was any discussion about it.
> 
> First question, /proc/sys/vm/swappiness. Is there an advantage to
> setting this to anything than the default for my distribution, which
> is 60? I have heard that settings of either 100 or 0 are good for
> different reasons, but strictly thinking in terms of using my system
> for music production, what would you recommend?
> 
> Second question, elevator=cfq. I am thinking that CFQ is not good for
> music purposes. Would that be correct? I've read it speeds up general
> desktop usage, but this might work against realtime-preemption,
> wouldn't it?
> 
> Third question, ReiserFS vs Ext3 vs XFS vs JFS etc. Is there a
> filesystem that should or shouldn't be used with realtime-preemption?
> 

None of these should matter

> Fourth question, CONFIG_DEBUG_DEADLOCKS. DeMuDi has it enabled, but it
> gives a warning when you boot up that it could introduce higher
> latencies. Is it safe to turn off?
> 

Yes, that should be off - it's really bad for Demudi to enable it by
default.

> I'm sorry if these have been asked before, but I didn't see anything.
> If you want to just link me, that's fine, I checked on Google and got
> conflicting results, and not a lot specific to music production.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> Dana
>