[ardour-users] Re: Re: tuning ardour + jack

[andy]

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 23:29:19 +0200, Michaël Ball wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 00:17, andy wrote:
>> On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 23:02:57 +0100, andy wrote:
>> 
>> > I now have most of the setup I've been working running OK - thanks for the
>> > help people have given. The system isn't that stable though - ardour keeps
>> > being kicked by jack, e.g. when I start a new instance of ices, and
>> > alsaplayer, which I'm using for recorded input, is crashing quite a bit.
>> > 
>> > Are there any good web pages that I could work through to get the system
>> > tuned up as well as possible?
>> 
>> P.S. my setup is:
> 
> *snip*
> 
> While this won't be much help in tuning up your system, it should make
> things run a bit faster.
> 
> Kill all processes you don't absolutely need. I notice you're running
> firefox in there, kdm, ssh, etc. What I do is, when I'm working on an
> audio session, I'll run X with fluxbox running on top of it, ardour and
> jackd, and pretty much nothing else. I kill smartmontools, sshd, any
> init.d script which isn't vital to the system running.

One thing I noticed from that top listing is that the two ices instances
are showing as priority RT, which I guess means realtime, but jackd isn't.
I did start it with -R, and the same happens when I run as root. the
realtime-lsm module is loaded with:

options realtime gid=29 mlock=1 allcaps=1

group 29 is audio, which I am a member of. Am I doing something wrong here?


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