Hi All,<br><br>I'm working a a fairly large multitrack production in Ardour and its gotten to the point where I am getting the "The disk on your computer was not able to keep up with Ardour..." message about every 30 seconds while playing back and while recording. <br>I'm going to post as much detail as possible below and I would appreciate any advice on solving this problem. Thanks!<br><br>ARDOUR SESSION---------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Session length: 3 minutes<br>Number of tracks: 64 <br>NOTE: the problem gets worse as I add more tracks, only 10 tracks are ever being played at once<br>Plugins: none<br><br>SYSTEM----------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Ardour version: ardour2-2.1-1.fc7.ccrma<br> Kernel: 2.6.22.6-1.rt9.5.fc7.ccrmart #1 SMP PREEMPT RT x86_64 GNU/Linux<br> Distribution: Fedora Core
7<br><br>SOUNDCARD---------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>M-Audio Delta1010<br>Alsa ICE1712<br><br>CPU---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>cat /proc/cpuinfo:<br><br>processor : 0<br>vendor_id : GenuineIntel<br>cpu family : 6<br>model : 15<br>model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz<br>stepping : 6<br>cpu MHz : 1596.000<br>cache size : 4096 KB<br>physical id : 0<br>siblings : 2<br>core id :
0<br>cpu cores : 2<br>fpu : yes<br>fpu_exception : yes<br>cpuid level : 10<br>wp : yes<br>flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm<br>bogomips : 4852.72<br>clflush size : 64<br>cache_alignment : 64<br>address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual<br>power management:<br><br>processor : 1<br>vendor_id : GenuineIntel<br>cpu family :
6<br>model : 15<br>model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz<br>stepping : 6<br>cpu MHz : 1596.000<br>cache size : 4096 KB<br>physical id : 0<br>siblings : 2<br>core id : 1<br>cpu cores : 2<br>fpu : yes<br>fpu_exception : yes<br>cpuid level : 10<br>wp : yes<br>flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep
mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall lm constant_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm<br>bogomips : 4808.21<br>clflush size : 64<br>cache_alignment : 64<br>address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual<br>power management:<br><br>RAM-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>cat /proc/meminfo:<br><br>MemTotal: 2041160 kB<br>MemFree: 14536 kB<br>Buffers: 5512 kB<br>Cached: 1263960 kB<br>SwapCached: 0 kB<br>Active: 1135300 kB<br>Inactive: 789944 kB<br>SwapTotal:
4200988 kB<br>SwapFree: 4200856 kB<br>Dirty: 328 kB<br>Writeback: 0 kB<br>AnonPages: 655940 kB<br>Mapped: 182984 kB<br>Slab: 33556 kB<br>SReclaimable: 13072 kB<br>SUnreclaim: 20484 kB<br>PageTables: 26212 kB<br>NFS_Unstable: 0 kB<br>Bounce: 0 kB<br>CommitLimit: 5221568 kB<br>Committed_AS: 960144 kB<br>VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB<br>VmallocUsed: 28856 kB<br>VmallocChunk: 34359709479 kB<br>HugePages_Total:
0<br>HugePages_Free: 0<br>HugePages_Rsvd: 0<br>Hugepagesize: 2048 kB<br><br>HARD DRIVE---------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Western Digital SATA2 500G 7200 rpm<br><br>hdparm -tT /dev/sda:<br><br>/dev/sda:<br> Timing cached reads: 5234 MB in 2.00 seconds = 2620.47 MB/sec<br> Timing buffered disk reads: 244 MB in 3.01 seconds = 81.15 MB/sec<br><br><br><br><br><p>
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