I observed a phenomenon the other day after using the new version of Audacity for recording a series of record albums. The phenomenon was -- my root filesystem ran out of space and my Gutsy system locked, hard, as in no mousy, no terminal, no nuthin'.
I was doing my usual manic multitasking, while running these albums across the turntable and capturing the sides, and there were a couple of cases of aborted recording sessions for various reasons. I am not aware of violating any of the rules of nice behavior while using Audacity, but after doing the Alt-SysRq RSEIUB routine, and getting the system back to semi-functional, my investigation revealed that the /tmp/.audacity file was at 2.6GB in size! That was a match to my former free space in the "/" filesystem, so I knew that was the problem. I nuked that file and restarted the system and all was fine, but I thought other Audacity users deserve fair warning.
I was doing my usual manic multitasking, while running these albums across the turntable and capturing the sides, and there were a couple of cases of aborted recording sessions for various reasons. I am not aware of violating any of the rules of nice behavior while using Audacity, but after doing the Alt-SysRq RSEIUB routine, and getting the system back to semi-functional, my investigation revealed that the /tmp/.audacity file was at 2.6GB in size! That was a match to my former free space in the "/" filesystem, so I knew that was the problem. I nuked that file and restarted the system and all was fine, but I thought other Audacity users deserve fair warning.
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