Recording skip fixed via swap?

[Corrupt_Reverend]

Hi, I have been playing around with audacity 1.3 for about a week now. So far I absolutely love it save for my only problem; when recording with overdub on (so that I can hear the previous track to play along to) the new recorded track gets all skippy. It doesn't do this while I am recording the first track of a project, only on subsequent tracks when I have overdub on. I've looked all over for an answer on how to fix this and all I could come up with pertains to my swap partition.

I was reading through the FAQ and somewhere in there it said if you have 1G of ram or better that you should have a smaller swap so that the program doesn't use the slower swap memory thus producing skippy recordings.

After I read this I checked and my swap partition is 1.3G. is there some way I can create a second swap partition and just switch to it when I am recording? If not, would I notice any ill effects from just getting rid of my current swap partition and having only a small one in it's place?

Any insight on how I can fix his issue would be greatly appreciated,
~Rev

P.S. I'm running jaunty (9.04) on a P4 (hyper threading) 3.0Ghz with 1G of RAM.

[steve]

I was reading through the FAQ and somewhere in there it said if you have 1G of ram or better that you should have a smaller swap so that the program doesn't use the slower swap memory thus producing skippy recordings.

I think that is unlikely unless you are running a lot of other applications at the same time (which is inadvisable).

would I notice any ill effects from just getting rid of my current swap partition and having only a small one in it's place?

It would reduce the number of applications that you can have running at the same time. Linux will use real RAM if it is available and will start chucking data into the swap file if it starts getting short of RAM. You can check the current status using the "System Monitor" (System > Administration)

What sound card are you using?

[Corrupt_Reverend]

Oh noes! I just realized I didn't swap out my sound card from my windows PC into my linux box. I'm running on-board sound. IS this likely the problem?

~Rev
P.S. thanks for the help thus far steve. I've been using ubuntu for about 2.5 years but still have yet to really dig into anything significant as far as utilizing it fully.

[steve]

. I'm running on-board sound. IS this likely the problem?

Possibly - do you still have the other sound card?

[Corrupt_Reverend]

I think I do... somewhere. :-/ Possibly in storage from when I moved. I'll see if any of my friends have a spare laying about and give it a whirl.

~Rev