Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] xf86config no_accel = yes but sucks bad
From: Lee Revell (rlrevell_AT_joe-job.com)
Date: Wed Sep 29 2004 - 19:41:21 EEST
On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 12:24, R Parker wrote:
> I'm running an ICP hardware raid controler with raid
> level 5 and reiserfs. In addition to that, I run an
> rsync mirror to an IDE drive. I'm considering
> switching from raid 5 to 0 because I do see read
> problems and maybe some of the xruns occur during
> write. The read problems appear with Ardour while
> doing REW or F/FWD seeks and the messages are
> something about disk read access error.
The problem is most likely reiserfs. Ext3 is better for low latency
systems.
If you are using 2.4, then maybe you should try a 2.6 + VP kernel. It's
pretty stable these days, but I still recommend doing this on a spare
box if you have any serious work to do.
Lee
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