[LAU] [Bulk] Re: Audacity on Ubuntu 14.04 is REALLY unstable

[david]

Well, I've heard that Gnome 3's default configuration makes it a major 
resource hog - particularly for memory. Like KDE4. I avoid Gnome 3. Both 
it and KDE4 launch a bunch of system services that I think can really 
impact RT use.

Sorry, I don't know anything about how Fedora might be configured 
differently from Debian.

On 08/18/2014 12:12 PM, Sam Tuke wrote:
> For what its worth, audacity is unstable on Fedora with Gnome 3 as well.
> Routine crashes and corrupted recovery files make it a real headache to
> use. Maybe its the versions of the packages we're using?
>
> Sam.
>
> On 18 August 2014 20:07:49 CEST, david <gnome at hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
>
>     On 08/18/2014 04:45 AM, James Stone wrote:
>
>         On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Fons Adriaensen
>
>             On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 02:21:56PM +0200, Philipp Überbacher
>             wrote:
>
>                 You can also try jack. Audacity uses jack in a very
>                 weird way, as soon
>                 as you roll audacity autoconnects to the first outputs
>                 it finds and
>                 disconnects once you stop rolling,
>
>
>             That's only one of the many apps that claim to support Jack but
>             get it completely wrong. In many cases, but not always,
>             portaudio
>             is to blame.
>
>         Perso nally I think the way Audacity handles audio on linux is
>         very bad
>         - doesn't manage to do Alsa, Jack or Pulseaudio right as far as
>         I can
>         see (if I don't run jack it endlessly changes the sample rate on my
>         card - making lots of clicks and pops as it takes over 1 minute to
>         start up!). I tried discussing problems on their forums but to no
>         avail.
>
>
>     I use Audacity on 2 different machines, both 64-bit Debian Sid, with a
>     UCA-202 USB sound card on the laptop and the now-working-again (YAY!)
>     Audiophile on the desktop. With or without JACK, Audacity never changes
>     the sample rate as you mention above. Doesn't take a minute to start up,
>     either.
>
>     I think there's some more fundamental problem with your system setup
>     than Audacity. Maybe Audacity's difficulties handling audio just make it
>     more sensitive to the fundamental problem than other apps.


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