[CM] /tmp full with SND files.

e deleflie edeleflie at gmail.com
Thu Jan 22 04:07:33 PST 2009


woops ... hit send and didn't change the topic.... here it is in the
correct topic.

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:06 PM, e deleflie <edeleflie at gmail.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> I've got an SND script that does sample rate conversion (usually from
> 44100 to 48000) on multichannel files. Code looks something like this:
>
>                        (src-sound (/ (srate insound) 48000) 1.0 insound 0)
>                        (src-sound (/ (srate insound) 48000) 1.0 insound 1)
>                        (src-sound (/ (srate insound) 48000) 1.0 insound 2)
>
> I'm running this script on Amazons' EC2 (cloud computing
> instance)..... and it barfs .... took me a while to work out that SND
> is filling up the /tmp/ directory with enough files that it the
> computer has no more room to breath. .... looks like this:
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 amber amber  48032520 2009-01-21 18:22 snd_2166_0.snd
> -rw-r--r--  1 amber amber  22974464 2009-01-21 18:23 snd_2166_10.snd
> -rw-r--r--  1 amber amber  48032520 2009-01-21 18:22 snd_2166_1.snd
> -rw-r--r--  1 amber amber  48032520 2009-01-21 18:23 snd_2166_2.snd
> -rw-r--r--  1 amber amber  48032520 2009-01-21 18:23 snd_2166_3.snd
> -rw-r--r--  1 amber amber 192129992 2009-01-21 18:23 snd_2166_4.snd
> -rw-r--r--  1 amber amber  48032520 2009-01-21 18:23 snd_2166_5.snd
> -rw-r--r--  1 amber amber  48032520 2009-01-21 18:23 snd_2166_6.snd
> -rw-r--r--  1 amber amber  48032520 2009-01-21 18:23 snd_2166_7.snd
> -rw-r--r--  1 amber amber  48032520 2009-01-21 18:23 snd_2166_8.snd
> -rw-r--r--  1 amber amber  23068712 2009-01-21 18:23 snd_2166_9.snd
>
> I'm wondering if this is because of the re-sampling? Is there anything
> I can do about it? ... what is it doing ... is it swap files or
> something? Should the files get deleted (if the process was
> successful?)
>
> Etienne
>



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