On 18 Sep 2003 17:54:58 -0400, "burns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 16:44, Net Llama! wrote: > > > > > yes, that's the load at the instant that you ran the command. were you > > attempting to encode a wav when you ran that? if so, then the load > > appears to be fine. you might want to just run 'top' the entire time to > > see what is going on across the board (cpu, memory, load). > > It is at all possible that this is a memory issue? With a file that big, > if your audio application tries to fit it all in memory, and you only > have 256MB and a correspondingly small swap file, then it may be running > out and truncating the file. I know with graphics files this can > happen... just a thought, YMMV >
Having spent the weekend playing around with it and using TOP to see what's going on I have come to the conclusion that all the Linux softwares I have been trying are indeed storing the file up in RAM then in my swap partition then hanging when it gets full. The Windows software I use on the other hand (CDWAVE) writes the file straight to disk with no temporary files. I have 256k ram and a swap partition of 512mb I can't seem to be able to (nor do I think it's a particularly good idea) increase the size of my swap partition. Is the only way I can have more success then increase the RAM ? or is there a Linux program that writes straight to disk ? Even if I click the straight to disk option in audacity it still fills my ram/swap partition -- Squabsy The List Crawler Using Opera, The Bat, K-meleon, or Becky. Right Now Using Fastmail when I should be working _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
