Subject: Re: [LAU] optimal disk performance, ubuntu

From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@...> · Date: Saturday, November 22, 2008 - 2:52 am

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Atte André Jensen

 wrote:

quoted text> Peder Hedlund wrote:

>

>> I think the IDE drives should be faster but I haven't got an ATA-100

>> cable so that might be the culprit.

>

>

> So I would expect my system to perform better, you're 50% more throghput

> than me :-(

>
The buffered number is the interesting one, not the cached.
Your disk seems fine.  Are you running plugins on each track or just

playing them straight off disk?
If you're doing heavy DSP on 10+ tracks I would expect the behavior

you see.  What's your JACK period size?
I agree that you should try Ardour to rule out a poorly written DAW.
Lee

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