Help for Audacity on GNU/Linux.
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This forum is for Audacity on GNU/Linux.
Please state:
- which version of Linux you are using,
- the exact three-section version number of Audacity from Help menu > About Audacity,
- whether you installed your distribution's release, PPA version, or compiled Audacity from source code.
Audacity 1.2.x and 1.3.x are obsolete and no longer supported. If you still have those versions, please upgrade (see
https://www.audacityteam.org/download/).
The old forums for those versions are now closed, but you can still read the archives of the
1.2.x and
1.3.x forums.
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Gale Andrews
- Quality Assurance
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- Joined: Fri Jul 27, 2007 12:02 am
- Operating System: Windows 10
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by Gale Andrews » Wed Apr 15, 2015 5:33 pm
Twhite wrote:Because the inner workings of the Linux operating system are more transparent than Windows it allows you more free and easy access to using kernel technologies like tmpfs to tune your system in a way that is more specific to your use case.
Even Windows does let you use a RAM disk
but the main issue is that Audacity is only a 32-bit application on Windows. We don't turn on the /LARGEADDRESSAWARE flag when compiling Audacity, so even on 64-bit Windows, Audacity can only get 2 GB of RAM allocated to it by the system whereas it could get a theoretical 4 GB if that flag was on (and if the user turns on
4 GT tuning).
Gale
