Well, I've heard that Gnome 3's default configuration makes it a major
resource hog - particularly for memory. Like KDE4. I avoid Gnome 3. Both
it and KDE4 launch a bunch of system services that I think can really
impact RT use.
Sorry, I don't know anything about how Fedora might be configured
differently from Debian.
On 08/18/2014 12:12 PM, Sam Tuke wrote:
> For what its worth, audacity is unstable on Fedora with Gnome 3 as well.
> Routine crashes and corrupted recovery files make it a real headache to
> use. Maybe its the versions of the packages we're using?
>
> Sam.
>
> On 18 August 2014 20:07:49 CEST, david <gnome@hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
>
> On 08/18/2014 04:45 AM, James Stone wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Fons Adriaensen
>
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 02:21:56PM +0200, Philipp Überbacher
> wrote:
>
> You can also try jack. Audacity uses jack in a very
> weird way, as soon
> as you roll audacity autoconnects to the first outputs
> it finds and
> disconnects once you stop rolling,
>
>
> That's only one of the many apps that claim to support Jack but
> get it completely wrong. In many cases, but not always,
> portaudio
> is to blame.
>
> Perso nally I think the way Audacity handles audio on linux is
> very bad
> - doesn't manage to do Alsa, Jack or Pulseaudio right as far as
> I can
> see (if I don't run jack it endlessly changes the sample rate on my
> card - making lots of clicks and pops as it takes over 1 minute to
> start up!). I tried discussing problems on their forums but to no
> avail.
>
>
> I use Audacity on 2 different machines, both 64-bit Debian Sid, with a
> UCA-202 USB sound card on the laptop and the now-working-again (YAY!)
> Audiophile on the desktop. With or without JACK, Audacity never changes
> the sample rate as you mention above. Doesn't take a minute to start up,
> either.
>
> I think there's some more fundamental problem with your system setup
> than Audacity. Maybe Audacity's difficulties handling audio just make it
> more sensitive to the fundamental problem than other apps.
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