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

From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@email-addr-hidden-job.com>
Date: Thu Dec 22 2005 - 23:14:59 EET

On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 12:54 -0800, Russell Hanaghan wrote:
> Lee Revell wrote:
>
> >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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> Jack then needs to be compiled as such right? That is, specifically to
> use /dev/shm as a tmpfs?
>
> thanks
> R~
>

Yes. Or configure your CD burning program to not use /tmp.

Lee
Received on Fri Dec 23 00:15:16 2005

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