[LAU] Using a memory file system?

Jostein Chr. Andersen jostein at vivaldi.net
Fri Sep 27 21:13:14 CEST 2019


On 2019-09-27 16:36, Brent Busby wrote:
> "Jostein Chr. Andersen" <jostein at vivaldi.net> writes:

> I'm thinking that you may have other problems besides disk i/o if your
> machine isn't keeping up, since DAW's try very hard to make sure they
> write everything asynchronously. <snip>

You are probably right, I get writing speeds with a 1 gig file ranging 
from 429 MB/s to 4,6 GB/s depending on how I play with the DD command. 
That should be more than sufficient.

> (Is your disk access light on solid during tracking?)

Oh, here did my not so perfect English make me a little dizzy, I don't 
understand that meaning. Could you rephrase it for me, please?  :-)


> However, as for using a ramdisk...sure!  I've heard others say not to 
> do
> it because you lose your work if the machine crashes, but I've never
> once had my machine crash during recording ever, so it doesn't worry
> me.  You can setup a tmpfs device of whatever size you like and record
> to that, and forget about disk latency, if that is indeed where your
> current problems are coming from.

I totally agree machine crash is a no topic. I also never experienced a 
crash during recording, only program crashes.

Thank you for your help, I think I will investigate further and try to 
solve the problem by checking the system deeply and I'm going to play 
with a ramdisk anyway!  :-)

Jostein


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