[LAU] Mounting /tmp to tmpfs

[torbenh]

On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 06:56:19AM -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 3:37 AM, Jeremy Jongepier <jeremy at autostatic.com> wrote:
> > On 02/08/2011 11:45 PM, Paul Davis wrote:
> >> no, but putting JACK's tmpdir on a tmpfs filesystem does.
> >>
> >> current versions of JACK use /dev/shm as the location for this, no
> >> /tmp (this was done years ago).
> >>
> >> --p
> >
> > Thanks for the reply Paul. But what about other applications that use
> > /tmp? Could they benefit from a /tmp directory mounted on a tmpfs
> > filesystem?
> 
> programs that use the filesystem from a realtime audio thread are
> incorrectly written.
> a system that allows disk i/o to interfere with a realtime audio
> thread is badly configured.
> 
> ergo, i would conclude that the only realtime audio programs that can
> benefit from this sort of thing are either badly written or running on
> a misconfigured system.
> 
> JACK itself isn't doing any file I/O - it just happens to use an
> inter-process communication system that uses identifiers that are
> related to the filesystem.

you should check the jack README... iirc it still talks about this /tmp
stuff. 
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