On 8/21/06, Drucer Ninetynine <drucer99@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> Could somebody please clarify can Ardour and other
> Linux audio apps use RAM efficiently? What I mean by
> this question is - let's imagine I have 4GB of RAM -
> are these applications aware that "oh I see, there's a
> lot of RAM available, let's use it" and use RAM
> instead of immediately writing to disk which is slow
> and can cause latency issues?
If you are running a realtime kernel and have a fast hard drive, I
don't see where this would be an issue. I am running jack + realtime
kernel + Ardour on a machine with 512MB of RAM, a firewire drive and a
Delta 1010, and never have issues with the writing to disk process not
being able to keep up with the audio (rarely, if ever, get xruns,
either).
-- Brett McCoy: Programmer by Day, Guitarist by Night http://www.alhazred.com http://www.cassandrasyndrome.com http://www.revelmoon.comReceived on Tue Aug 22 00:15:03 2006
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