16 May
2003
16 May
'03
1:58 p.m.
On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 10:48:01AM -0400, Joe Hartley wrote:
It was, what fs are you using for /tmp?
Another thing that may help is tuinng the disk elevator with elvtune(8),
the latencies are set pretty high by default, especially for scsi disks
that have thier own block grouping code.
Reducing it will reduce throughput, but may help things get written out
the disk earlier and reduce burstyness.
- Steve
The main
problem is that jack writes data to a /tmp file. It has been
found that mounting /tmp as tmpfs (in RAM) solves the problems that many
people have experienced with lockups while using JACK.
I have been plagued with little xruns for a while now, and couldn't
figure out why! I'd seen something on using /tmpfs, but for some odd
reason I thought it was for people using a journalled FS on their root
filesystem. Duh!