[linux-audio-user] Re: [fluid-dev] fluidsynth sound breaks on disk/cpu intense operation

Frank Barknecht fbar at footils.org
Tue Apr 15 04:14:01 EDT 2003


Hallo,
Mikhail Ramendik hat gesagt: // Mikhail Ramendik wrote:

> But, even though I run it as root, fluidsynth's sound still audibly
> breaks on a cpu/disk intensive operation - I tested it with starting
> OpenOffice and with running sxid.
> 
> Is there any way to fix this? And should I try installing Timidity for
> such cases? I just want the synth to work in parallel with regular work.

You don't have a kernel with low latency or pre-emptible patches
installed? If yes, then this will happen again and again. Out of the
box, the Linux kernel is a mess for music.

ciao
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 Frank Barknecht                               _ ______footils.org__



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