Re: [linux-audio-user] Current merrits of tmpfs with Jack

From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@email-addr-hidden-job.com>
Date: Thu Dec 22 2005 - 21:21:23 EET

On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 11:14 -0800, Russell Hanaghan wrote:
> Hi to all and Merry Xmas, Festivus, whatever your preference!
>
> Is there a major performance hit that anyone can speak to if they do not
> utilize tmpfs on /tmp when using jack?
>

Yes.

> I'm looking to master a Livecd and to create it, it stores it's data in
> /tmp. If I have tmpfs set on /tmp, the mastering of the cd falls out
> becauges 1 gb of memory is insufficient....yet, I want /tmp to have a
> tmpfs ultimately on the bootable cd.
>
> Any thoughts?

Configure JACK to use /dev/shm and leave /tmp on your root FS.

Lee
Received on Fri Dec 23 00:15:12 2005

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