Re: [LAU] Using a memory file system?

On 2019-09-27 16:36, Brent Busby wrote:
> "Jostein Chr. Andersen" <jostein@vivaldi.net> writes:

> I'm thinking that you may have other problems besides disk i/o if your
> machine isn't keeping up, since DAW's try very hard to make sure they
> write everything asynchronously. <snip>

You are probably right, I get writing speeds with a 1 gig file ranging
from 429 MB/s to 4,6 GB/s depending on how I play with the DD command.
That should be more than sufficient.

> (Is your disk access light on solid during tracking?)

Oh, here did my not so perfect English make me a little dizzy, I don't
understand that meaning. Could you rephrase it for me, please? :-)

> However, as for using a ramdisk...sure! I've heard others say not to
> do
> it because you lose your work if the machine crashes, but I've never
> once had my machine crash during recording ever, so it doesn't worry
> me. You can setup a tmpfs device of whatever size you like and record
> to that, and forget about disk latency, if that is indeed where your
> current problems are coming from.

I totally agree machine crash is a no topic. I also never experienced a
crash during recording, only program crashes.

Thank you for your help, I think I will investigate further and try to
solve the problem by checking the system deeply and I'm going to play
with a ramdisk anyway! :-)

Jostein
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Received on Wed Jan 1 02:16:11 2020