[ardour-users] the land of xruns

[Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano]

> > Lawrie Abbott wrote:
> > > Matt Polashek wrote:
> > >> I am in the land of xruns.  Can someone help me get out. 
> > >> I am running Fedora fc1.
>
> Somehow with a Planet install I managed to mount the
> jack tmp on a journaled filesystem. Xruns were very
> frequent and occured with frames of 1024.

How did you manage to do that? Did you install your own jack? The Jack
packages in Planet CCRMA are "hardwired" to use /var/lib/jack/tmp and
automatically mount that as tmpfs...

-- Fernando

> They wouldn't happen with large frames until recording
> eight or more tracks but once they started they
> wouldn't stop.
> 
> I now have:
> none                    /mnt/raid5/tmp/jack     tmpfs 
>  defaults        0 0
> 
> That is an ext2 filesystem. As I write this, I am
> running an Ardour stereo mix to JAMin, JAMin out to
> Ardour and recording that while using the network with
> a frame of 64. No problems!
> 
> Never mind. It's Xrunning like crazy again. This is
> the point where I beat on the drums or try a more
> reasonable frame; 256. :)
> 
> ron
> 
> http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/tunesystem.html
> > 
> > Simplest thing would be install the Planet CCRMA
> > kernel for Fedora, and 
> > check out the systems tuning stuff mentioned above.
> > Next step is the use 
> > a lightweight window manager like Fluxbox or
> > Windowmaker. Every time I 
> > see somebody doing live audio work under Linux, I
> > know I ain't looking 
> > at Gnome or KDE ;-) Checking your PCI/IRQ interrupts
> > and seeing if 
> > there's conflict is another step, as this site
> > describes:
> > 
> >  >
> >
> http://myweb.cableone.net/eviltwin69/Arcana.html#IRQs
> > 
> > good luck,
> > d.
> > 
> > -- 
> > derek holzer ::: http://www.umatic.nl
> > ---Oblique Strategy # 6:
> > "Abandon normal instruments"