Re: [linux-audio-user] stable? Ardour on debian

From: John Check <j4strngs@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Fri Jan 21 2005 - 01:58:12 EET

On Thursday 20 January 2005 04:52 am, Tobias Ulbricht wrote:
> Hello LAD.
>
> Finally I'm back on this list and recording some music.
> After listening to your recordings and reading that you use ardour
> extensively, I wonder what your experience concerning stability of ardour
> is. I'm using the debian unstable package, with the versions:
>
> Ardour/GTK 0.548.1 running with libardour 0.851.1
> jackd version 0.99.0 tmpdir /dev/shm protocol 13
>
> Well, I tried several configurations with jackd up to high latencies.
> But ardour regularly crashes, while editing, inserting plugins or handling
> connections, or just playing back. Sometimes its ketting "Killed",
> sometimes it segfaults.
>
> * Is that still normal?
>
> * Is 256 MB RAM / 1 GHz Celeron not enough power for 2-5 simultaneous
> tracks?
>

I can run at least 8 with DSP on a Celeron 733
2.4 kernel with low latency and preempt patches is the ticket .

> Otherwise it records fine (using an Audiophile 2496) and does not crash
> very often when recording. Greetings to all of you, developers/musicians.
> Tobias.
Received on Fri Jan 21 04:15:19 2005

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