17 Jul
2014
17 Jul
'14
3:37 a.m.
On 07/15/2014 06:58 AM, jim wrote:
Hiya,
I've got a Zareason media box
http://zareason.com/shop/MediaBox-5440.html
with 8 GB RAM running AVlinux (a debian flavor);
I use Ardour pretty much exclusively, that and
the vi editor.
The system can record a single track with no
problem. It occasionally fails if I try to record
two simultaneous tracks. If regularly fails if I try
to record four or more tracks.
The complaint is always that the disk system
cannot keep up.
it's unlikely that it's a disk problem. Most modern disks can read/write
at least 40MB/sec, theoretically:
40 * 10^6 [Bytes / sec]
/ (48000 [samples / sec] * 4 [bytes / sample / channel])
= 208 mono-channels
Is the filesystem that you record to NTFS? There are some odd issues,
that some have been reported on #ardour IRC. I don't know the details
but with some version (or option) of the linux driver disk read/write
are always blocking with the effect that disk access can stall the
application for seconds.
If not NTFS, the only other thing that comes to mind is bus: Maybe the
internal disk in this box is connected via USB and you've plugged some
mouse into the same USB bus which forces it to 1.1 or something.
Question: what info should I capture and email to
get appropriate help?
for starters:
cat /proc/mounts
lsusb -t
ciao,
robin