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On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 07:41:52PM -0500, Jonathan E. Brickman wrote:

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> The best way to test if your Linux setup is ready for audio, I think, is

> here:

>

> http://wiki.linuxmusicians.com/doku.php?id=system_configuration

>

> Download the .pl file, make it executable, and run it in a terminal.  In

> other words, in a terminal:

>

> wget

> http://realtimeconfigquickscan.googlecode.com/hg/realTimeConfigQuickScan...

> chmod +x realTimeConfigQuickScan.pl

> ./realTimeConfigQuickScan.pl | less

>

> and study the results.  My hardware is such that realtime kernel is not

> necessary, and I'm not sure about 'noatime' on the filesystems, but

> everything else it reports has been extremely valuable.  AVLinux ran

> well before I did all the things it requested; after I did them, it

> began to run screamingly.

>

> There is a list of multimedia-oriented distros on that page, but some of

> the listings are alpha quality, no longer in existence, et cetera.

> 

Thank you, that is an extremely useful tool.
It caught two errors on my EEE, one of which I knew about, and the other was a ttotally new thing to me.
I know my kernel doesn't have HZ=1000, becuase when I do that, it doesn't boot. So, sorry,  no 1000Hz timer.
But it also caught this other weird thing I'd never heard of:

fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 524288
Which was easy enough to fix.
Fascinating. Thanks again!
-ken

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