[ardour-users] kernel for Gentoo + xruns after 5-6 seconds of recording 8 channels

[John Anderson]

On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 01:57, Alex Obradovic wrote:
> I installed planet CCRMA kernel as instructed by Gentoo documentation,
> I customized kernel, enabled low latency, but still Ardour records for
> about 8 seconds and then I get X-run and a message to restart both
> Jack and Ardour.

Check your disk throughput using vmstat or iostat. If you can see that
the xruns correspond to disk io, there might be issues with your disk
subsystem. Are you using IDE or SCSI?

bye
John