Try to use ION2. It's not really a desktop environment ;) ... 
http://modeemi.fi/~tuomov/ion/.

It's using less resources than fluxbox etc. ...

You run into similar trouble I also know by using Linux, while I never 
had this with Windows, maybe your mobo is as bad as mine ;).

I never got troubles because of the hard disk. Is it set up correctly by 
the BIOS? DMA SMART etc. ...

fred wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> I upgrade from Lenny 5.01 with the 64Studio repositories, and it's nice !
>
> Just a problem in Ardour, at this point of the first song with this 
> system
> (mix step) : Ardour says that the HD is not speed enough in reading, 
> and the
> visual doesn't follow the sound (when able to play)
>
> There is 30 tracks and 8 bus in reading, only Jack and Ardour are 
> running,
> 26 plugins are used, most of them are C* Tube preampIV+tone and TAP Tube
> warmth. The others are : Dyson comp, TAP reverberator, C* Eq 10 bands.
> 2 instances of C* plate2X2 and 1 of C* JVRev-stanford reverbs are on bus,
> feeded with tracks pre or post send.
>
> I give this list, just in case somebody says "Never use this plugin, 
> it's known
> for bugging", but problem here could be : only 1Gb memory...
>
> Maybe there's something that can be done (stopping services, force 
> swap, change
> Jack settings ? Frankly don't know, and after unsuccessfull browsing, 
> here I am ;-))
>
> Here's top verbose :
>> f...@debian:~$ top
>>
>> top - 08:17:16 up 10 min,  2 users,  load average: 1.14, 1.20, 0.58
>> Tasks: 127 total,   2 running, 125 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
>> Cpu(s): 82.5%us,  2.9%sy,  0.0%ni, 12.2%id,  0.0%wa,  1.9%hi,  
>> 0.4%si,  0.0%st
>> Mem:   1021592k total,  1006728k used,    14864k free,     7624k buffers
>> Swap:   698788k total,      168k used,   698620k free,   575624k cached
>>
>>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  
>> COMMAND                                                          
>>  3349 f         20   0  379m 232m  39m S 74.3 23.3   7:23.22 
>> ardour-2.8                                                       
>>  2807 root      20   0  236m  13m 7372 R  4.1  1.4   0:17.83 
>> Xorg                                                             
>>  3315 f         20   0 50092 9828 8628 S  4.0  1.0   0:23.32 
>> jackd                                                            
>>  4510 f         20   0  101m  20m  12m S  2.4  2.0   0:00.65 
>> gnome-terminal                                                   
>>  1388 root     -85  -5     0    0    0 S  1.0  0.0   0:06.08 
>> IRQ-21                                                           
>>     5 root     -51   0     0    0    0 S  0.6  0.0   0:03.32 
>> softirq-timer/0                                                  
>>  3304 f         20   0 85428  25m  20m S  0.6  2.5   0:04.99 
>> qjackctl                                                         
>>   235 root     -75  -5     0    0    0 S  0.3  0.0   0:00.17 
>> IRQ-12                                                           
>>   630 root     -51  -5     0    0    0 S  0.1  0.0   0:01.99 
>> IRQ-14                                                           
>>   631 root     -51  -5     0    0    0 S  0.1  0.0   0:00.41 
>> IRQ-15                                                           
>>  2754 root      20   0  3344 1000  880 S  0.1  0.1   0:00.05 
>> hald-addon-stor                                                  
>>  4547 f         20   0  2412 1156  884 R  0.1  0.1   0:00.07 
>> top                                                              
>>     1 root      20   0  2224  776  668 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.98 
>> init                                                             
>>     2 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 
>> migration/0                                                      
>>     3 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 
>> posix_cpu_timer                                                  
>>     4 root     -51   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 
>> softirq-high/0                                                   
>>     6 root     -51   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 
>> softirq-net-tx/                                                  
>>     7 root     -51   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 
>> softirq-net-rx/                                                  
>>     8 root     -51   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 
>> softirq-block/0                                                  
>>     9 root     -51   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 
>> softirq-tasklet                                                  
>>    10 root     -51   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 
>> softirq-sched/0                                                  
>>    11 root     -51   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.06 
>> softirq-rcu/0                                                    
>>    12 root      10 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 
>> desched/0                                                        
>>    13 root      -2  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.03 
>> events/0                                                         
>>    14 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 
>> khelper                                                          
>>    15 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 
>> kthread                                                          
>>    31 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.07 
>> kblockd/0                                                        
>>    32 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 
>> kacpid                                                           
>>    33 root     -51  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 
>> IRQ-9                                                            
>>   113 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.01 
>> kseriod                                                          
>>   131 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 
>> pdflush                                                          
>>   132 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.02 
>> pdflush                                                          
>>   133 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.28 
>> kswapd0                                                          
>>   134 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 
>> flush_filesd/0                                                   
>>   135 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 
>> aio/0                                                            
>>   236 root     -76  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 
>> IRQ-1                                                            
>>   593 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 
>> ksuspend_usbd                                                    
>>   596 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 
>> khubd                                                            
>>   607 root     -81  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 IRQ-17    
> In /etc/secutity/limits.conf there is :
>
> @audio - rtprio 99
> @audio - memlock unlimited
> @audio - nice -10
>
> And user is in audio group
>
> RTkernell is 2.6.21-1-multimedia-486
>
> Jack says :
>
> JACK is starting...
>
> 08:07:49.362 /usr/bin/jackd -R -P89 -p128 -dalsa -dhw:0 -r48000 -p128 -n3
> -D -Pplughw:0 -i2 -o2 -Xseq
>
> 08:07:49.391 JACK was started with PID=3315.
>
> jackdmp 1.9.2
>
> JACK server starting in realtime mode with priority 89
>
> creating alsa driver ... 
> plughw:0|hw:0|128|3|48000|2|2|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit
>
> Using ALSA driver ICH4 running on Intel ICH5 with AD1981B at irq 21
>
> configuring for 48000Hz, period = 128 frames (2.7 ms), buffer = 3 periods
>
> ALSA: final selected sample format for capture: 16bit little-endian
>
> ALSA: use 3 periods for capture
>
> ALSA: final selected sample format for playback: 32bit float little-endian
>
> ALSA: use 3 periods for playback
>
> 08:12:41.237 Transport start.
>
> Then audio starts, but visual is not following. When try "Alt+M" :
>
> 08:12:46.472 XRUN callback (1).
>
> JackEngine::XRun: client = ardour was not run: state = 2
>
> JackAudioDriver::ProcessAsync Process error
>
> JackEngine::XRun: client = ardour was not run: state = 1
>
> JackAudioDriver::ProcessAsync Process error
>
> JackAudioDriver::ProcessAsync Process error
>
> JackEngine::XRun: client = ardour was not run: state = 1
>
> JackAudioDriver::ProcessAsync Process error
>
> JackAudioDriver::ProcessAsync Process error
>
> JackEngine::XRun: client = ardour was not run: state = 1
>
> JackAudioDriver::ProcessAsync Process error
>
> JackEngine::XRun: client = ardour was not run: state = 1
>
> JackAudioDriver::ProcessAsync Process error
>
> JackEngine::XRun: client = ardour was not run: state = 1
>
> JackAudioDriver::ProcessAsync Process error
>
> JackEngine::XRun: client = ardour was not run: state = 1
>
> JackAudioDriver::ProcessAsync Process error
>
> JackEngine::XRun: client = ardour was not run: state = 1
>
> JackAudioDriver::ProcessAsync Process error
>
> JackEngine::XRun: client = ardour was not run: state = 1
>
> JackAudioDriver::ProcessAsync Process error
>
> JackEngine::XRun: client = ardour was not run: state = 1
>
> JackAudioDriver::ProcessAsync Process error
>
> 08:12:46.855 XRUN callback (10 skipped).
>
> 08:13:26.057 Transport stop.
>
>
>
> If you have any idea, many thanks in advance, I like to mix it
> without many trackings before !
>
> Greets,
>
> Fred
>
>
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