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by chuckyanutsup
Tue Jul 12, 2011 5:32 pm
Forum: GNU/Linux and Unix-like
Topic: Ubuntu 11.04 and ntfs. very slow
Replies: 11
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Re: Ubuntu 11.04 and ntfs. very slow

Absolutely keen for tests :) The more I can learn about how my system works, the better ^_^
by chuckyanutsup
Tue Jul 12, 2011 2:15 pm
Forum: GNU/Linux and Unix-like
Topic: Ubuntu 11.04 and ntfs. very slow
Replies: 11
Views: 5055

Re: Ubuntu 11.04 and ntfs. very slow

...my ntfs is automounted through my fstab file "ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 0"
I've been using the "play and/or record using RAM" as a workaround for the time being. It did take a few mins to open a very large wav, but I guess that is to be expected. Will see how it goes.
by chuckyanutsup
Tue Jul 12, 2011 2:06 pm
Forum: GNU/Linux and Unix-like
Topic: Ubuntu 11.04 and ntfs. very slow
Replies: 11
Views: 5055

Re: Ubuntu 11.04 and ntfs. very slow

It was working ok on default as best I could tell, I was not able to use it for very long before it had problems with a lack of space and had to change where it stored temporary files.
by chuckyanutsup
Tue Jul 12, 2011 2:51 am
Forum: GNU/Linux and Unix-like
Topic: Ubuntu 11.04 and ntfs. very slow
Replies: 11
Views: 5055

Re: Ubuntu 11.04 and ntfs. very slow

Audacity writes data as a lot of small files, so even though the NTFS drive is reasonably quick with large files it may not be performing very efficiently with lots of small files. Did you try Audacity with the default installation before you started customising it? I tried the defaults, but quickl...
by chuckyanutsup
Mon Jul 11, 2011 5:43 pm
Forum: GNU/Linux and Unix-like
Topic: Ubuntu 11.04 and ntfs. very slow
Replies: 11
Views: 5055

Ubuntu 11.04 and ntfs. very slow

Hi everyone. This is my first post after much googling. I'm experiencing really slow speeds when running Audacity 1.3.13-beta (Unicode) in linux (issue is not as present in windows). Every time I load a file, or run an effect; Audacity takes a long time and greys out before completing the task. My c...