[LAU] SSD for Linux audio? (Was: Re: Massive Xruns during recording)

[Paul Davis]

xruns are rarely related to disk i/o and if they are then it's the result
of system configuration or badly written software.



On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 5:16 AM, Peter <list at schmitteckert.com> wrote:

> Dear Jeanette,
>
> out of  curiosity I created a RAM-disk
>
> sudo mount -t tmpfs -o size=10G tmpfs RAM
>
> and recorded to that one. As a result, I couldn't record 32 channel at
> 48kHz and a buffer of 128.
> At a buffer of 256 it ran without any xruns, however, in that case,
> storing on hard disk creates
> an XRun only once at a while. So I'm not sure, whether a SSD would improve
> much.
> at least you could make a test recording to a RAM disk.
>
>
> -> jackd: v0.125.0 (-R --timeout 4500 -d alsa -C multi_capture -P
> multi_playback -r 48000 -p 256 -z shaped)
> Note, I made my test simply using ardour5 and jackd.
>
> Best regards,
> Peter
>
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