[ardour-users] OT - 2.6.11 kernels for audio

[Mark Knecht]

On Apr 11, 2005 3:51 PM, Paul Winkler <pw_lists at slinkp.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 02:17:42PM -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 14:08, Aaron Trumm wrote:
> > > > Yeah, sounds like a plan. Lee and Fernando are both a great help. I do
> > > > this only about twice a year. I did it last October and have been
> > > > running at sub-3mS since then on 2.6.9. However all learning I did is
> > > > long lost. Must start over again.
> > > >
> > > > I've heard nothing about ext3 problems. Then again I subscribe to very
> > > > few lists these days.
> > >
> > > I'm watching all this very closely :)
> > >
> > > ext3 problems??  I apparentely just had a reiserfs problem.  but that might
> > > have also been an ardour bug.  one person on the dev list seems to think so
> >
> > Hmmmm, it would seem to me that's unlikely. An ardour bug should not
> > trash a filesystem (any). But maybe that is possible.
> >
> 
> I forgot to follow up on that thread.... but, big corruptions in
> ANY stable filesystem (reiser, ext3, whatever) should not be dismissed
> as "maybe it's the app".  These most often come down to hardware
> failures.  

Either that or spurious software running amok. We also need to know
what kernel Aaron was running at the time, what windowing environment,
what other apps, etc.

2.6.11-ck4+realtime-lsm on fluxbox is likely to work just a little bit
better than an unpatched 2.6.1 kernel running KDE.

- Mark