[ardour-users] System was not able to keep up with Ardour

[Paul Davis]

before following mark's advice, check the value of the "track-buffer-
seconds" in ~/.ardour/ardour.rc. If it is not at least 5, make it 5 and
try again.

> 1) Determine the speed of your drives:
> 
> hdparm -tT /dev/hda
> hdparm -tT /dev/hdc
> 
> 2) Look at your kernel:
> 
> uname -a
> 
> 3) Possibly look at interrupts:
> 
> cat /proc/interrupts
> 
> 4) Post back what environment you're running. I've had many troubles
> with KDE. Gnome works OK on my better machines. fluxbox works really
> well on all the systems I've tested it on.
> 
> 5) lspci, lsmod
> 
>    There are probably 100 other possible things folks here will ask
> you to look at. Don't worry. You'll get it figured out.