[LAU] Ardour complains disk system can't keep up

jim jim at well.com
Tue Jul 15 17:35:49 UTC 2014


     Excellent idea! Thanks. So I've already
tested with Ardour as best I can imagine.
     I haven't looked at
# ls -lat /var/log/* | head -20
     It happens when we're playing and I'm
usually blown out with that.

     Given that my experience is satisfactory,
then what can I do to diagnose the disk
drive, controller, driver module, <what_else>
???
     Quick and dirty:
* up the RAM from 8GB to more
* replace the spinning drive with SSD
* other???

     Continued thanks.



On 07/15/2014 10:13 AM, Paul Davis wrote:
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> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 11:58 AM, jim <jim at well.com 
> <mailto:jim at well.com>> wrote:
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>         Thanks lots, Jeremy.
>
>         I haven't used hdparm; I see it does a lot (much
>     to learn, per the man page).
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>         I'm thinking of writing a for loop and capture
>     start and end time: will that be useful? (Probably
>     I'll use DASH, Python, and C, just to compare
>     those three.)
>
>         I haven't had the need to use lspci or lsmod or
>     most other diagnostic tools (not till now, so I'm
>     mostly lost).
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>         More thanks, I'll probably be able to send info
>     tomorrow (machine is not home).
>
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> specially written tests are not useful. They don't read/write in the 
> same pattern as Ardour. If you want a test app, use Ardour :)
>

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