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Bug#429996: audacity: consumes excessive swap when directory for temporary files does not exist and is on a filesystem almost out of free space



On Thursday 21 June 2007 17:34:34 Arthur Marsh wrote:
> Package: audacity
> Version: 1.3.3-1
> Severity: normal
>
>
> When loading an MP2 file about 80 MiB in size, audacity consumed over a
> gigabyte of swap on this machine with 256 MiB RAM installed before
> locking things up. The temporary files directory was set to a
> non-existent directory on a filesystem with only about 12 MiB disk space
> free.
>
> Shouldn't audacity first check that the temporary files directory
> exists and is writable, then warn about the amount of free space before
> a project is loaded or file is imported?

While I agree this would be nice to have, it's more of a wishlist request.

If you want to do audio processing a sane amount of (temporarely) disk space 
sounds only sane...

Joost



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