Reinstalling fresh

Fri Apr 29 00:02:18 UTC 2011

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 7:36 PM, tommy <allornothin.tommy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Mike, this is the output from cat/proc/interrupts, thanks for the help
> :)
>            CPU0       CPU1       CPU2       CPU3
>   0:        128          9          3          1   IO-APIC-edge      timer
>   1:          0          1          1          0   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
>   8:          1          0          0          0   IO-APIC-edge      rtc0
>   9:          0          0          0          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   acpi
>  12:          1          0          0          3   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
>  16:         14          4    34994 10236   IO-APIC-fasteoi
> uhci_hcd:usb3, nvidia
>  17:          3          7          5      229   IO-APIC-fasteoi   eth1
>  18:    2264329    1667668 58      58   IO-APIC-fasteoi
> ehci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb8, ohci1394
>  19:  1082    1087 866209     182664   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ata_piix, ata_piix
>  20:          0        0          0            0   IO-APIC-fasteoi
> uhci_hcd:usb7
>  21:          0          0          0          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi
> uhci_hcd:usb4, uhci_hcd:usb5
>  22:         78         75         67      69   IO-APIC-fasteoi   HDA Intel
>  23:         40         41  109995 86864   IO-APIC-fasteoi
> ehci_hcd:usb2, uhci_hcd:usb6
>  28:         16     306117        11     16   PCI-MSI-edge      eth0
>  NMI:          0          0         0          0   Non-maskable interrupts
>  LOC:    4235366  4175547 4002622    3956454   Local timer interrupts
>  SPU:          0          0          0        0   Spurious interrupts
>  CNT:          0          0          0         0   Performance counter
> interrupts
>  PND:          0          0          0        0   Performance pending work
>  RES: 2754223  417620 396099 587164  Rescheduling interrupts
>  CAL:  5387   4362     3863       2625   Function call interrupts
>  TLB:       5392       5471  4287 5591   TLB shootdowns
>  TRM:          0          0          0        0   Thermal event interrupts
>  THR:          0          0          0        0   Threshold APIC interrupts
>  MCE:          0          0          0          0   Machine check
> exceptions
>  MCP:         13         13         13         13   Machine check polls
>  ERR:          0
>  MIS:          0
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Mike Holstein <mikeh789 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 7:06 PM, tommy <allornothin.tommy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >> I was wondering if anyone knew what the most stable setup (Ubuntu
> >> Studio version, Jack'd version, Ardour version) would be for using
> >> primarily Ardour.
> >> I have been recording large sessions (30-40 tracks) for about 3 months
> >> with Studio 10.04 and the 2.6.31-9 rt kernel and have been having
> >> issue's with ardour and jackd crashing what seems like randomly. I
> >> haven't been able to reproduce it. It doesn't matter if it is a giant
> >> session or a small session I will get a segmentation fault anywhere
> >> between 10 minutes to 4 hours. Sometimes several in a row and
> >> sometimes not at all for an entire 5 hour recording session. I am
> >> using 2 mackie onyx 1640's via onboard firewire on a Dell studio
> >> (desktop) with a 2.33 Ghz quad core and 6 gig's of DDR2. Also an
> >> Nvidia 9800 GTX. I'm just not sure where to go to fix my stability
> >> problems. I don't know if it is my firewire chipset or the drivers I'm
> >> using. I read somewhere that using nvidia drivers could cause the
> >> problems. Maybe my harddrives are to slow? I am willing to go to a
> >> barebones install if need be. I don't need the install to do anything
> >> but record in ardour and master in jammin. It just looks really bad
> >> when I am recording a band and I have to tell them to hold on while I
> >> restart ardour or the computer. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> >> Thank you!
> >> Tommy
> >>
> > check your firewire chipset, and also run in a terminal
> > cat /proc/interrupts
> > and see what devices are sharing IRQ settings...
> > i have ubuntu 10.04 and i have started using the KXstudio ppa's with
> it...
> > however, even before that, with your same sofware setup, and a P4 with a
> gig
> > of ram, i had a very stable firewire rig using a texas instruments
> chipset,
> > and a presonus firepod... i have a faster machine now, but still, its
> > running 10.04 and with any kernel, its stable... check on those couple
> > things, and lets go from there
> >>
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you see the line ehci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb8, ohci1394, thats not ideal..
that means that your firewire device is shared with 2 other USB ports... you
should look in the bios and see if you can change that, and also, run lspci
and see what firewire chipset you have...

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