[ardour-users] disk throughput problems with beta

[Peter Lutek]

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 10:24:03 -0800, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> So what sort of system is this? What distro? What kernel? What VGA card?
>

nothing special. acer 4002WLMi notebook, 1 Gb RAM, 60Gb 7200RPM HD,  
integrated Intel 855 video. gentoo with a 2.6.11-mm4 kernel.

> BTW - I'm curious. When would you ever record 18 tracks and care about
> latency? I find that matters most to me when I'm recording a single
> track. when I'm doing 18 tracks it's just a loud cacophony and I jsut
> want to get it on disk and move on to the fun stuff. ;-)

yes, of course -- a matter of technical curiousity, really. it's just cool  
to see all that audio get laid down without a burp! but, i must say i DO  
find using lotsa channels to record the "loud cacophony" of my band "fun"!

-p