Re: [Rosegarden-user] Problem with ALSA/Fliudsynth/Something

[Colin C. <cp...@sh...>]

Richard Cooper wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 08:39:58 -0500, Dave Serls <da...@da...> 
> wrote:
> 
>>    Speaking of hardware -- what kind of cpu have you, and how much 
>> memory?
> 
> 
> 1Ghz Pentium 3, 384MB RAM
> 
> The sound device is a via82xx of the 686 type.
> 
> 

It looks as if you are using an on-board sound chip, and you are 
certainly RAM-starved. Why not bump up the RAM as far as your box will 
go, which should do good things for memory-bound processes by reducing 
swapping, and it will give you more room for soundfonts, which are also 
contributing to your thrashing problems. A SB Live! card can be had for 
cheap and would also ease the resource problem with a place to stash 
soundfonts away from the system RAM, as well as having more hardware 
synthesis to play with.

Colin
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