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

[Dana Olson]

On 2/1/06, robin <robin at rektau.ukfsn.org> wrote:
> 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
>

Thanks for the replies.

Robin,

I actually use Ubuntu, I'm just trying to get it as close to DeMuDi as
possible. I just looked at DeMuDi's kernel config so I could compare
it to mine.

I'm documenting as much as I can and working on tutorials and the like.

Dana
ubuntustudio.com