Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] hdr disk throughput
From: Andrew Clausen (clausen_AT_gnu.org)
Date: Mon Mar 13 2000 - 16:49:35 EST
Paul Barton-Davis wrote:
> >I get about 4.5Mb of reads per second on my disk, either way.
>
> I hope you have an old disk. For 24bit/96kHz we need 9MB/sec
> uni-directional transfer :)
I do have an old disk :-)
> >BTW, you might want to run them on a raw partition, and a
> >filesystem, to compare performance.
>
> I've ruled out raw partitions, they seem evil in almost every way. I
> know they'd be faster, but I don't care - the other losses seem to great.
> For now :)
Can't you let the user decide this? You could implement it quite
transparently: ~/ardour/music-file could be a symlink to a partition.
It *is* yucky, but try telling that to someone who can't fit the
last track in :-)
Andrew Clausen
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