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

robin robin at rektau.ukfsn.org
Wed Feb 1 07:20:12 EST 2006


Lee Revell wrote:
> 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
>>
> 
> 
> 

Dana

Is this the Demudi 1.3.0 release candidate? Could you raise a ticket at 
http://demudi.agnula.org/newticket

robin



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