[ardour-users] Ardour was not fast enough

[Devin Venable]

On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 23:18, Mark Knecht wrote:
> OK, so basically you have lots of disk throughput, so if the 'disk
> cannot keep up', as the Ardour message goes, it's most likkely a red
> herring sort of message. More likely something else is getting in the
> way.
> 
> Sorry that I've forgotten or didn't read this earlier but you are
> using a pretty old version of Fedora Core. Can you post the output of
> these commands?
> 
> uname -a
Linux aldous 2.4.26-1.ll.rhfc1.ccrma #1 Sat Apr 17 21:19:40 PDT 2004
i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

> cat /proc/asound
asound is a directory.  You mean /proc/asound/cards?
0 [AudioPCI       ]: ENS1370 - Ensoniq AudioPCI
                     Ensoniq AudioPCI ENS1370 at 0xd800, irq 17
or /proc/asound/version?
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.4.
Compiled on Apr 18 2004 for kernel 2.4.26-1.ll.rhfc1.ccrma with
versioned symbols.

> lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 741/741GX/M741
Host (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device
0003
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS85C503/5513 (LPC
Bridge) (rev 25)
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0
Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0
Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0
Controller
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI
Fast Ethernet (rev 90)
00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1370 [AudioPCI]
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
661FX/M661FX/M661MX/741/M741/760/M760 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter

> lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
snd-pcm-oss            44872   0  (autoclean)
snd-mixer-oss          16728   1  (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
ide-cd                 35840   0  (autoclean)
cdrom                  33568   0  (autoclean) [ide-cd]
binfmt_misc             7688   1
snd-seq-midi            5152   0  (unused)
snd-seq-midi-event      6304   0  [snd-seq-midi]
snd-seq                49968   1  [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-midi-event]
snd-ens1370            12676   1
snd-pcm                86176   0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-ens1370]
snd-timer              21220   0  [snd-seq snd-pcm]
snd-rawmidi            19840   0  [snd-seq-midi snd-ens1370]
snd-seq-device          6284   0  [snd-seq-midi snd-seq snd-rawmidi]
snd-page-alloc          9336   0  [snd-ens1370 snd-pcm]
gameport                3380   0  [snd-ens1370]
snd-ak4531-codec        6360   0  [snd-ens1370]
snd                    49156   0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss
snd-seq-midi snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-ens1370 snd-pcm snd-timer
snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ak4531-codec]
soundcore               6692   6  [snd]
parport_pc             18852   1  (autoclean)
lp                      8900   0  (autoclean)
parport                37184   1  (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
autofs                 13812   0  (autoclean) (unused)
sis900                 15596   1
crc32                   3696   0  [sis900]
ipt_REJECT              4344   1  (autoclean)
ipt_state               1048   2  (autoclean)
ip_conntrack           31656   0  (autoclean) [ipt_state]
iptable_filter          2444   1  (autoclean)
ip_tables              15776   3  [ipt_REJECT ipt_state iptable_filter]
sg                     37100   0  (autoclean) (unused)
scsi_mod              109144   1  (autoclean) [sg]
keybdev                 3104   0  (unused)
mousedev                5556   1
hid                    24868   0  (unused)
ehci-hcd               21544   0  (unused)
usb-ohci               22216   0  (unused)
usbcore                80928   1  [hid ehci-hcd usb-ohci]
input                   5760   0  (autoclean) [keybdev mousedev hid]
ext3                   73252   2
jbd                    54324   2  [ext3]

> cat /proc/interrupts
           CPU0
  0:   33276692    IO-APIC-edge  timer
  1:      25632    IO-APIC-edge  keyboard
  2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
  8:          1    IO-APIC-edge  rtc
  9:          0   IO-APIC-level  acpi
 12:     490266    IO-APIC-edge  PS/2 Mouse
 14:     130467    IO-APIC-edge  ide0
 15:     264651    IO-APIC-edge  ide1
 17:    1857492   IO-APIC-level  Ensoniq AudioPCI
 19:      42665   IO-APIC-level  eth0
 20:          0   IO-APIC-level  usb-ohci
 21:          0   IO-APIC-level  usb-ohci
 23:          0   IO-APIC-level  ehci_hcd
NMI:          0
LOC:   33278888
ERR:          0
MIS:          0