[LAU] realtime kernel

david gnome at hawaii.rr.com
Sun Nov 18 17:51:59 EST 2007


Lars Luthman wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-11-18 at 12:43 +0100, Julien Claassen wrote:
>> Hi everyone!
>>   Short question only: If I compile a realtime kernel, with Ingo's patches, do 
>> I need to set the timer to 1000Hz. Or is it best to do so. My system is about 
>> 2 and a half years old athlon 2500+ CPU 1.8gHz.
> 
> For audio it shouldn't make much of a difference. Maybe it does for some
> MIDI software though. I don't think it would hurt.

Non-realtime stock kernel here, the timer is 250Hz. On start up, 
Rosegarden tells me it can't find a fast enough timer, but it plays MIDI 
anyway. I don't do audio work outside of that.

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