Voluntary scheduler for mdk, was Re: [linux-audio-user] what window manager are you using?

[Robert Jonsson]

torsdagen den 12 augusti 2004 17.11 skrev Russell Hanaghan:
> On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 00:58, Anahata wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 03:22:39PM -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 14:30, Andrew Dahlin wrote:
> > >
> > > I assume you're worried about the WM overtaxing the system therefore
> > > causing xruns.
> > >
> > > It should not matter which WM you're using if you are running a proper
> > > kernel.
> >
> > I've been thinking that: I'm glad somebody else said it :-)
> >
> > The windows manager and desktop is only user-land code and if jack and
> > the sound drivers are all running at higher priority all that should
> > happen while you've got audio apps running is either(a) no difference or
> > (b) the desktop becomes a little less responsive, depending on the
> > overall CPU and disk workload.
> >
> > For what it's worth I'm running standard Gnome on kernel 2.6.6. I don't
> > do any heavyweight audio though. arecord records 16/44.1 stereo fine.
> >
> > > 2.6 with Ingo's voluntary preempt is actually even better but it's not
> > > yet 100% stabilized.  With one of those kernels and with JACK in
> > > real-time mode, you could abuse the system pretty badly and it won't
> > > skip a bit.
>
> Does anyone know if a package for this kernel has been done for Mandrake
> 10.0? 

None that I know of.

Asking this guy might be an idea, perhaps he can include it:
http://mandrake.contactel.cz/people/svetljo/mandrake/kernel/


> I'm not at the pseudo Jedi Warrior level for compiling kernels 
> just yet! :) Although, I HAVE become a master at compiling Wine and fst
> / jack_fst! :P

;-)

/Robert

>
> R~
>
> > That's what I'm looking forward to...

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