Hi All, <br><br>Thanks for asking... I've compiled all the questions and answered them below.<br><br><br>>have you done lots of overdubs in the same track? i.e. regions are<br> >stacked on top of each other many times?<br><br>Tons of overdubs but no regions are stacked up on the same track and I regularly cleanup unused sources and flush the wastebasket<br><br>>What do you mean by "10 tracks ever played at once"? Is there only<br> >audio regions on 10 of the tracks? Are the tracks mono or stereo?<br><br>The tracks are mono.<br>Most of the time (at this stage of production) 54 channels are muted.<br><br>>What filesystem, and how much space is left on the partition? <br>>Just post the output from mount and df (and note where the session is).<br>><slidgey@yahoo.ca>jlc<br></slidgey@yahoo.ca><br>df -h:<br>Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted
on<br>/dev/sda2 29G 5.8G 22G 22% /<br>/dev/sda5 419G 141G 257G 36% /home<br>/dev/sda1 99M 45M 50M 48% /boot<br>tmpfs 997M 0 997M 0% /dev/shm<br><br>OS is on / (obviously)<br>The Ardour session is on /home <br><br>>What's the sample rate? If it's 92kHz there's no chance of a single<br> >disk keeping up with 64 tracks. At 48kHz it should be just about<br> >possible.<br><br>I forgot to mention that. The sample rate is 96kHz<br><br>>Back when I was facing this issue someone on this list suggested that <br> >I could
deactivate some of my tracks, which keeps them in the project <br>>but doesn't read them during playback. That completely solved my <br> >problem, and could very likely solve yours since you only want 10 <br> >tracks at once.<br><br>Thanks. That sounds like a good idea at this stage... but I will at some point want to play all the tracks.<br><br>>run bonnie - make sure your work files exceed available RAM (to avoid<br> >caching affecting the outcome)<br><br>Version 1.03 ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-<br> -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--<br>Machine Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP /sec %CP<br>mymachine 4000M
50185 92 59996 19 30507 7 57658 89 70586 7 189.3 1<br> ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------<br> -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--<br> files /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP<br> 16 +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++<br>mymachine,4000M,50185,92,59996,19,30507,7,57658,89,70586,7,189.3,1,16,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++<br><br><br><br><br><p>
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