[PlanetCCRMA] Ardour files size limit?!?

[Peter Lutek]

On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 14:52:15 -0700, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>  
wrote:

> BTW - when I did shut the session down each track was 927MB...
>
> On 4/14/05, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hey, I almost forgot about this. It's been going almost an hour and a
>> half at this point. No failures.
>>
>> I sort of agree with Ron. Do you have disk space? Must be somethign
>> else causing the problem.
>>
>> Also, my screensaver did kick in. No problems on my machine because of
>> that. Kernel is PlanetEdge for FC2. Ardour is last night's daily
>> tarball. (Now I'm getting 50 tracks!)
>>
>> - Mark
>>
>> On 4/14/05, Robert Jonkman <yeahtuna@lansound.com> wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 12:33 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
>> > > Robert,
>> > >    If you'd like I'll kick off a session and see if I get the same
>> > > limit. Are you jsut recording a stereo pair? A single mono  file?
>> >
>> > Please, that would be great.  I've been testing with mono tracks at
>> > 96000.  I also did another test at 48000. Again Ardour crashed, and as
>> > expected it was after about 30 mins.
>> >
>> > >
>> > > Cheers,
>> > > Mark
>> > >
>> > > On 4/13/05, Robert Jonkman <yeahtuna@lansound.com> wrote:
>> > > > I'm having a problem with ardour.  For some reason, it always  
>> crashes
>> > > > after recording for 15 minutes.  I thought maybe it was a screen  
>> saver
>> > > > issue, but that doesn't seem to be the case.  Does Ardour have a  
>> file
>> > > > size limit?  Is there anyway around this?  I want to use it to  
>> record
>> > > > live performances.  The files are 320.8 megs in size with Ardour
>> > > > crashes.
>> > > >
>> > > > rob.

recording mono tracks at 44100, i crash at just under 3hr23min, with  
individual file sizes at 2.1Gb.
there are no xruns or "disk subsystem too slow" errors.
there is lots of space left on the drive.

-p