[linux-audio-user] Re: Advice on desktop/platform

Loki Davison loki.davison at gmail.com
Tue Aug 1 21:04:14 EDT 2006


On 8/2/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 20:39 -0400, M P Smoak wrote:
> > On Tuesday 01 August 2006 11:58, Lee Revell wrote:
> > > Disagree, using Fluxbox over Gnome is not likely to make a difference
> > > with a recent kernel.
> > >
> > > Lee
> >
> > Lee, do you think that the same can be said about KDE rather than Gnome?
>
> Yes.  With a kernel patched for realtime, or a recent unpatched 2.6
> kernel, the choice of desktop/window manager will have no impact on
> realtime audio performance (as measured by number of xruns), as long as
> JACK is running in realtime mode.
>
> The belief that stripping down your desktop will improve realtime audio
> performance is a holdover from the bad old 2.4/early 2.6 days.
>
> Lee
>
>

though if you have limited memory it can still help, right? I.e if the
system needs to swap because of a big desktop running? Not that i
really know, i run KDE and i've got 2GB ram ;)

Loki



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