On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Squabsy wrote: > In terms of RAM I currently have 256mb on 2 128 chips and a 512 swap How > much more ram would you recommend ?
As much as the mobo & your budget can hold. seriously. > I seem to remember that someone advised that max swap should be double > your ram. I think the recordings I have made get more glichy once the ram > run's out and the SWAP kicks in. that was true for 2.2.x kernels. its not really true for 2.4.x kernels. You can add additional swap files, which would be a decent short term workaround, although performance will continue to suck badly. I wouldn't recommend resizing a swap partition, unless you feel _very_ confortable with resizing partitions under linux. If you do it wrong, you risk hosing your entire system. > Recording wavs is really the only major problem I'm having with Linux so > I don't want to spend too much. I suppose I could replace one of the > 128's with a 256 for about �30 that would take me up to 384. I doubt that's going to help much. RAM is dirt cheap. Either max it out, or don't bother at all. > My objective is (still) a 30 min 16bit stereo wav at 44100hz > > Are there no progs that can write direct to disk for linux then ? i doubt it. its buffering to memory (RAM + swap) for performance reasons. Writing straight to disk will most likely kill performance worse than what you're already experiencing. Of course not running KDE and/or Gnome will certainly free up a ton more RAM. XFCE (xfce.org) might be a good choice for an alternative window mamanger. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
