On Monday 26 September 2005 16:59, Mark Knecht wrote:

> "Any disk activity seems to be the main cause of xruns on this machine."
>
>    If I get xruns (a failure mode of Jack-Audio-Connection-Kit running
> on this hardware) then the machine is useless doing the sort of Linux
> audio work I want to do so this is the problem I'm trying to solve.
> That's my only goal.

have you checked that 'unmaskirq' is set for your harddisk?

hdparm /dev/hda should look like this:
hdparm /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
 multcount    = 16 (on)
 IO_support   =  1 (32-bit)
 unmaskirq    =  1 (on)
 using_dma    =  1 (on)
 keepsettings =  0 (off)
 readonly     =  0 (off)
 readahead    = 256 (on)
 geometry     = 16383/255/63, sectors = 234493056, start = 0

not this:
hdparm /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
 multcount    =  0 (off)
 IO_support   =  0 (default 16-bit)
 unmaskirq    =  0 (off)
 using_dma    =  1 (on)
 keepsettings =  0 (off)
 readonly     =  0 (off)
 readahead    = 256 (on)
 geometry     = 16383/255/63, sectors = 234493056, start = 0
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