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

[Paul Davis]

>I will try 2.4.  My box is APIC, I imagine, since it's a dual athlon.
>Can I still help anything along interrupt-wise?  Unfortunately,
>reading tracks and writing others to the disk at the same time is
>usually a reality for me...I have been wondering whether moving all my
>completed tracks to one disk and writing to the other would be faster
>though, although it doesn't seem like one disk is enough to read 12
>tracks concurrently with low latency.  Anyone have experience w/
>whether it's better to read all from one and write to the other or
>read some from each and writ concurrently?

you have no choice. ardour reads from existing tracks even while
recording to them, because you can punch out at any time.

--p