[ardour-dev] Latency: AGP vs PCI video card and XFS journalling vs not

[Jack O'Quin]

Steve Harris <S.W.Harris at ecs.soton.ac.uk> writes:

> To original poster: have you made sure your jack fifos are not mounted on
> a joirnaled partition, that is quite important.
> 
> Planet CCRMA creates an /etc/fstab entry for it:
> none            /var/lib/jack/tmp       tmpfs   defaults         0 0
> 
> Which seems to work well. I think you have to reuild jack to tell it to
> use this directory. I expect there are instructions on the web somewhere.

IIUC, recent Debian JACK packages are built using /dev/shm for this.
This should already be mounted as a tmpfs.  You can verify this with
`jackd -V' and by looking at /etc/fstab.
-- 
  joq