recording wavs

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Squabsy wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 08:57:35 -0400 (EDT), "Net Llama!"
> <netllama at linux-sxs.org> said:
> > On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Squabsy wrote:
> > > Quoting Tim Wunder <tim at thewunders.org>:
> > >
> > > > Or partition space in any temporary storage location that Audacity (or
> > > > gnome-sound-recorder, or gramophile) would be using.
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > How would I check this please ?
> >
> > df -h
> >
> > i'd also be really curious what the load is on you box while its encoding
> > (uptime output).
> >
>
> OK
>
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hdb6             8.8G  4.9G  3.9G  56% /
> /dev/hda1             6.0G  5.6G  436M  93% /windows/C
> /dev/hdb1              20G   13G  7.2G  64% /windows/D
> shmfs                 125M     0  125M   0% /dev/shm
>
>
> I've got 256mb of Ram and an amd k6 processor
>
> I've also just noticed that the wavs I'm creating are over 1gb for just
> few minutes of music (but xmms shows them all asbeing exactly 100 mins
> long ????

where are you attempting to write them?  You dont' seem to have very much
free space on any of your partitions, especially hda1.  What
bitrate/frequency are you using to create the wavs?


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