Re: [linux-audio-user] hello gentoo? speed up please...

From: Joel White <cv223@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Tue Apr 12 2005 - 04:49:28 EEST

Aaron Trumm wrote:

>>1: update kernel to at least 2.6.11
>>2: make sure the jack tmpdir is set to a ramdrive (tmpfs)
>>3: try building jack from cvs (there's been MANY improvements)
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>nice. thanks :) how do I do number 2? I've never looked at that...
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If you are using the ebuild (rather than #3), add jack-tmpfs to your
USE. jack is then built with --with-default-tmpdir=/dev/shm. Check your
/etc/fstab - there should be an entry to mount /dev/shm as tmpfs (I
don't think I had to add that - it was just there).

Joel

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>>As a side note, you can patch gentoo-sources with Ingo's realtime-preempt
>>patchset. I've done it and the only failed patches was one to modify the
>>kernel tag (pointless and not needed) and a trivial one the fails if you
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>>gentoo's custom bootsplash framebuffer (Nothing significant. It just adds
>>brackets into an if statement) That patch will speed up the latency quite
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>>bit. Use it with caution though because you will trade off speed for
>>stability.
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>I thought those patches were already a part of some kernels... ? I could've
>sworn I ...well I don't really remember *laugh* but I could've sworn I used
>a gentoo kernel that had those patches applied...*thinks hard*
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>>You can also muck around with the kernel's compiler flags
>>in /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/Makefile but again, you'll be playing with
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>fire.
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>blech :)
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>well - all of this will have to wait as I - ahem - recover from a big 'ol
>crash (hadn't tweaked any settings yet - just total coincidence)
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