[LAU] Large live recrodings ?

[Kjetil S. Matheussen]

Arnold Krille:
>
> Am Donnerstag, 10. Juli 2008 schrieb Kjetil S. Matheussen:
>> Svend-Erik Kj?r Madsen:
>>> Now I'm so pleased with my Multiface though it's just a Steinberg
>>> AudioLink 96 Multiset, I don't regret the money I spend on it, that's
>>> foe sure. And now I'm pretty confident with the thought of selling out
>>> my ADAT's and only use my notebook or my stationary computer for music
>>> recording.
>> Make sure you turn off cron-jobs, or at least the hardisk
>> file find updater [1], before doing any important recordings. :-)
>> [1] Everyone working with audio should probably turn off
>> that cron job.
>
> My big cron jobs check wether "pidof jackd" returns something or not. And if a
> jackd is running, they don't start...
>

That's a good idea. But what if the file locate updater cron job
has started before you start jack? That could be devastating
if doing a recording of many channels.