Audacity Forum

OK this weekend I will go back to 4GB and try what you recommend and get back to ya. With 4GB memory and running audacity built from the downloaded source everything was fine. No hangs and no paging. The SuSE distributed binary rpm seems to be the source of my problems. I downloaded SuSE's source r...

When I build from src can I assume that no special options need to be given for ./configure? This is what SuSE does in their spec file: %configure --docdir=%{_defaultdocdir}/audacity/ %ifnarch %ix86 x86_64 --disable-sse %endif FWI: I monitored memory usage for each step in an example of processing a...

OK this weekend I will go back to 4GB and try what you recommend and get back to ya.

So does rebooting the computer make any difference? If it does not prove to be bad memory behaviour on your machine when it's asked to do some serious number-crunching, it may be useful at some stage to launch Audacity from the terminal (or better from within the gdb debugger) and see what messages...

I added another 8GB of memory to the system and this morning I had no problems at all. No paging detected and no freezes. This indicates to me that there is certainly something amiss somewhere. Should not Audacity run perfectly fine with 4GB of memory on a 32bit OS? Obviously I cannot be sure that i...

OK, I'll do that in the morning. First though, I'll go ahead and add another 4GB to the box. The kernel I'm running has HIGHMEM enabled so maybe??.

mark

"Are you working in just one Audacity project at a time (one window) and one album (less than an hour of audio)?
What sample rate do you use?"

Yes, one album at a time. I am using 96000

Mark

The machine is running 32 bit mode and has 4GB ram. I never see any swap used.

Mark

Actually, Importing WAV or AIFF files (possibly those created by Audacity) may cause a freeze or a crash. After this occurs, Audacity may become destabilized and crash again even without importing further files. It is believed to mostly affect Intel Mac machines and to be caused by memory corruption...

It is set to spdif: Line:0. This is happening while the sound device (in or out) is not even being used.

mark