> A message like this really does mean that your hard disk can't keep
> up with the demand for data. The cause of this however can come from
> several sources. Since you are running several programs at once, most
> likely synced together through the Jack transport, this means that they are
> probably all trying to access data from the drive(s) at the same time, and
> as you know, audio can be rather dense when uncompressed. So the solution?
> It is often recommended to have a separate disk for recording audio and
> whatnot to, that way, when linux needs to read info for running a program
> it wont interfere with the audio data access on another disk. Of course
> faster sata/serial disk drives will help as well.
Hm... that sounds a little bit disappointing, especially as I found out that
theres an SATA- disk in my laptop (Samsung X20). sudo hdparm -tT /dev/sda
results in:
Timing cached reads: 1592 MB in 2.00 seconds = 795.96 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 96 MB in 3.06 seconds = 31.40 MB/sec
Shouldn't that be fast enough?
Are there any people here who are recording to systemdisks with no problems?
As a workaround, I'm recording the Hydrogen track in Ardour, so that I can
switch Hydrogen of. I'm not very happy with it, though.
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