[linux-audio-user] Linux DAW otimization (and Kanotix)

[Brad Fuller]

Lee Revell wrote:
>   
> This helps a lot:
>
> echo 64 > /sys/block/hdc/queue/max_sectors_kb
>
> (replace hdc with your drive, repeat for all of them)
>
> Try that before you resort to patching the kernel.
>
> IIRC PD is not the best designed RT app (GUI stuff can delay the RT
> threads), but this might have improved lately.
>   
What is given up by setting this to 64? I have a sata set at 1024 and an
IDE at 128. Certainly they were set at these settings for a reason (I
hope a good reason)