On 2007-02-05 07:39, Nicolas Maufrais wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 06:28:31PM +1100, jostle wrote: > > Your 'top' output reveals a pretty significant problem. You are running > > with no swap space! > > > > > Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 1298492k cached > > > > I suggest that you re-configure your machine to have around 4GB of swap > > and see if that helps. > > Heroine Virtual Ltd recommends disabling swap when a lot of memory is > installed. >
I suspect 2G is not "a lot of memory" when HDV is used. Scott, would you include what codecs are being used in your project for input material? That determines loading and playing memory behavior. Without any swap, it will be impossible to tell if you really needed swap or not. (ie. You can't tell if your project would run faster without swap, because you can't check if it was never used.) You're long pauses suggest there may be a memory issue though. The advice to try 4G of swap would help to rule out memory exhaustion as the issue. (You can use swapon and swapoff to test.) Kevin
