Re: [LAU] Large live recrodings ?

From: Svend-Erik Kjær Madsen <sv-e@email-addr-hidden-e.dk>
Date: Sat Jul 12 2008 - 15:31:08 EEST

In fact I run no cronjobs at all, but if things are given the right
permission and set propper through PAM there should be no problem
running a script as long as it has lower priority as your music
application as I see it. But thanks for the advise anyway.

/Sv-e
lør, 12 07 2008 kl. 14:25 +0200, skrev Kjetil S. Matheussen:
>
> There is a horrible, at least it was horrible, cron job
> called "slocate". If you have that cron-job, you should
> probably turn it off, since it scans the whole HD
> usually once a day. You can try to run it manually
> to see what happens: "slocate -u" (as root)
>
>
> On Sat, 12 Jul 2008, Svend-Erik Kjær Madsen wrote:
>
> > Dear friends as I said before I'm no techie but I run all my music
> > applications through PAM and as they all are given nice -19 and rt
> > permissions I see no problem at all. I only discover problems if I mix
> > down and have a lot of FX effects in use, let's say over 20.
> >
> >
> > /Sv-e
> > lør, 12 07 2008 kl. 14:13 +0200, skrev Kjetil S. Matheussen:
> >> Arnold Krille:
> >>>
> >>> Am Donnerstag, 10. Juli 2008 schrieb Kjetil S. Matheussen:
> >>>> Svend-Erik Kj?r Madsen:
> >>>>> Now I'm so pleased with my Multiface though it's just a Steinberg
> >>>>> AudioLink 96 Multiset, I don't regret the money I spend on it, that's
> >>>>> foe sure. And now I'm pretty confident with the thought of selling out
> >>>>> my ADAT's and only use my notebook or my stationary computer for music
> >>>>> recording.
> >>>> Make sure you turn off cron-jobs, or at least the hardisk
> >>>> file find updater [1], before doing any important recordings. :-)
> >>>> [1] Everyone working with audio should probably turn off
> >>>> that cron job.
> >>>
> >>> My big cron jobs check wether "pidof jackd" returns something or not. And if a
> >>> jackd is running, they don't start...
> >>>
> >>
> >> That's a good idea. But what if the file locate updater cron job
> >> has started before you start jack? That could be devastating
> >> if doing a recording of many channels.
> >>
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