I can’t install any non-free software on this system. I alreay have a fully working daw on my old airgapped windows machine. However I rather not use non-foss software that is why i am bothering with ardour to begin with. Maybe it’s time to just get analog hardware (tape recorder etc…)

Update: I had a limit for my memory usage set to some default of 4 GiB I increased that to a higher number. This improved but did not resolve the issue in the end.

Anyone reading this here is the guide I followed to do so on a Debian: https://discourse.ardour.org/t/your-system-has-a-limit-to-locked-memory-solution/86813

Will this work even if it just freezes and technically never really crashes? Thanks this might be the light at the end of the tunnel. Would be grand if that gives the hint on how to make this work!