[LAU] A short story: from zero to recording the drums in a budget

[Fons Adriaensen]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 08:36:32AM +0200, Carlo Ascani wrote:
 
> I think that the most interesting part here is the computer.
> It is a P4 with 512MB of RAM and it does a great job as a digital recorder.
> ...
> Under Ardour 3, there is a plain archlinux installation.
> Stock kernel, and a very inexpensive window manager.

I've got a similar setup: 512M, Arch + windowmaker,
but can't get A3 to run on it in any usable way - it
just eats too much memory. Any tricks ??

Ciao,

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