[ardour-users] Ardour was not fast enough

[Devin Venable]

> Would you please post the results of this command run as root?
> 
> hdparm -tT /dev/hda
> 
No problem:

/dev/hda2:
 Timing buffer-cache reads:   460 MB in  2.04 seconds = 225.05 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  138 MB in  3.00 seconds =  45.97 MB/sec

Other hardware info:
K7VM2 Rev 2.02 motherboard
Duron 1.4 GHz CPU
709 MB RAM
Maxtor 2F040L0 hard drive
ES1370 AudioPCI sound card

Other software info:
Fedora Core 1 ( Linux version 2.4.26-1.ll.rhfc1.ccrma )
jackd version 0.99.0 
Ardour/GTK 0.9beta29
   (built using 0.589.2 with libardour 0.887.1)