[PlanetCCRMA] Configuring 2.6.11-0.3.rdt.rhfc2.ccrma for 0 xruns...

[Mark Knecht]

Aaron,
   With today's Ardour tarball (which fixes the multi-disk problem) I
got as far as playing back 36 tracks while recording 10 more for 5
minutes successfully with no xruns at 128/2. Pretty good 'eh?

   WIth those 46 tracks I tried recording 4 more but could only go
about 1-2 minutes before I got messages about the disk subsystem not
being able to keep up. I somehow think that isn't real and that the
results will get better, but even at this point it's well beyond the
capabilities of my Pro Tools rig.

   Seem real world enough for a start? ;-)

- Mark

On 4/13/05, Aaron Trumm <aaron@nquit.com> wrote:
> >    One thing I did notice was that when doing copies from one drive to
> > another the machine was bumping up against 100% CPU. It typically was
> > running at 70% CPU with spikes going higher. Possibly this is normal
> > CPU usage as I'm sure Linux wants to copy the files as fast as it can.
> > This may not be an issue during recording as Ardour will limit how
> > much disk usage it requires. None the less I don't want xruns.
> 
> Do some real world type tests - get 16 or 24 or 32 tracks of audio playing
> back for three minutes, recording back in to 2 channels of ardour - let's
> see what happens there ...
> 
>