From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 9 21:57:19 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4660516A420 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2006 21:57:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hackmiester@hackmiester.com) Received: from smtpout06-04.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (smtpout06-01.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net [64.202.165.224]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B7EC043D45 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2006 21:57:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hackmiester@hackmiester.com) Received: (qmail 27152 invoked from network); 9 Mar 2006 21:57:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (70.146.215.243) by smtpout06-04.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (64.202.165.227) with ESMTP; 09 Mar 2006 21:57:16 -0000 From: hackmiester / Hunter Fuller Organization: hackmiester.com, Ltd. To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 15:57:11 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: In-Reply-To: X-Face: #pm4uI.4%U/S1ioJYRGD3o )AM MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <200603091557.14718.hackmiester@hackmiester.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart4280255.tjRpFXxcZK"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Newbie FreeBSD/Linux Question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: hackmiester@hackmiester.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 21:57:19 -0000 --nextPart4280255.tjRpFXxcZK Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 08 March 2006 14:46, Lawrence Petrykanyn wrote: > Hi! > > > I tried "make --with-default-tmpdir=3D/mnt/ramfs" and received a message > informing me that this is not correct Make syntax. No, you've got it all wrong! To build an application, you generally do this: =2E/configure make make install #if you want to install it So, in the case of that application, it means do this: =2E/configure --with-default-tmpdir=3D/mnt/ramfs" make make install #if you want to install it > > Am I supposed to edit the config file(s) that accompany the source > code? If so, which one(s), config.h.in, configure, configure.ac or one > of the files in the config directory of this package? > > This is probably a very simple matter, but I have googled around and > cannot find an answer. Any comments, suggestions or advice would be > greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > Lawrence > > JACK README > > Welcome to JACK, the Jack Audio Connection Kit. > > Please see the website (http://jackit.sf.net/) for more information. > > NOTE: If you are using reiserfs or ext3fs or anything except ext2fs > for the directory where JACK puts its temporary files (/tmp by > default), then the JACK team recommends that you do *one* of the > following: > > ---------------------------- > > Mount a tmpfs on /tmp. You should have a lot of swap space available > in case some programs try to write very large files there. > In your /etc/fstab add a line: > > none /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0 > > You'll probably want to reboot here, or kill X then 'mount /tmp'. > > ---- OR ---- > > Alternatively, you can do this without affecting your /tmp: > > # mkdir /mnt/ramfs > > [edit /etc/fstab and add the following line] > none /mnt/ramfs tmpfs defaults 0 0 > > Then add --with-default-tmpdir=3D/mnt/ramfs to the JACK configure > line when you build it. No clients need to be recompiled. > > ------------------------------ > > Failure to do one of these could lead to extremely poor performance from > JACK, > since its normal operation will cause bursts of disk I/O that are > completely unnecessary. 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