[ardour-users] jack on gentoo tmpfs? ramfs?

[Thomas G. Willis]

On 4/28/06, Harold Aling <h.aling at home.nl> wrote:
> Thomas G. Willis wrote:
> > My question for all the gentoo users. Do you have to use any special
> > use flags to get the jack-audio-connection-kit to put all the FIFO's
> > in ramfs. This may not be the right terminology. I'm referring to the
> > specific documentation.
> >
> > (...)
> >
> > Then use --with-default-tmpdir=/mnt/ramfs to the JACK configure line
> > when you build it. No clients need to be recompiled. "
> >
> > the gentoo wiki seems to be a little stale for jack right now, but I
> > just want to know how I can tell whether jack is setup this way
> > already or whether I need to flip some use flags or edit config files
> > or whatever. The pipeline between my ram in my processor is pretty fat
> > and I have more than enough ram, just want to make sure it's being
> > utilized.
> >
> Part of the .ebuild:
>
> if use jack-tmpfs; then
>                 myconf="${myconf} --with-default-tmpdir=/dev/shm"
>
> So if you use the jack-tmpfs use-flag, the /dev/shm mount is used as temp.
>
> Gentoo powerrrrr!

AWESOME!!! my guess was right then. Power!!!! indeed thanks.


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Thomas G. Willis