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

[Thomas G. Willis]

Yeah it worked wonders for me. no xruns, and thelatency is really good
now. I may try turn off realtime just to see what happens.

On 4/29/06, Andrew Johnston <andyandtaya at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just make sure you don't create an fstab entry for /tmp/jack, as it's not
> needed.   I think gentoo automagically has the entry for /dev/shm in fstab,
> so jack will find it and use it.  So yeah, addin jack-tmpfs into your use
> flags in /etc/make.conf is all you gotta do.  Made a massive difference for
> me.
>
>  GO GENTOO!
>
>  Andy J =)
>
>
> On 4/28/06, Thomas G. Willis <tom.willis at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
>  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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