[linux-audio-dev] Realtime audio and IO schedulers

[Paul Davis]

>Exactly, IO works well enough now, we should not encourage people to do
>it from an RT thread.  If updatedb interferes with your HDR then you are
>simply not using a big enough buffer.

ardour uses an (adjustable) size of 5 seconds per track. if this is
not large enough to smooth out disk scheduling, i don't know what is.

--p