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On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 06:56:19AM -0500, Paul Davis wrote:

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> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 3:37 AM, Jeremy Jongepier  wrote:

> > On 02/08/2011 11:45 PM, Paul Davis wrote:

> >> no, but putting JACK's tmpdir on a tmpfs filesystem does.

> >>

> >> current versions of JACK use /dev/shm as the location for this, no

> >> /tmp (this was done years ago).

> >>

> >> --p

> >

> > Thanks for the reply Paul. But what about other applications that use

> > /tmp? Could they benefit from a /tmp directory mounted on a tmpfs

> > filesystem?

>

> programs that use the filesystem from a realtime audio thread are

> incorrectly written.

> a system that allows disk i/o to interfere with a realtime audio

> thread is badly configured.

>

> ergo, i would conclude that the only realtime audio programs that can

> benefit from this sort of thing are either badly written or running on

> a misconfigured system.

>

> JACK itself isn't doing any file I/O - it just happens to use an

> inter-process communication system that uses identifiers that are

> related to the filesystem.

you should check the jack README... iirc it still talks about this /tmp

stuff.

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