[linux-audio-user] Graphics card an realtime performance

[Lee Revell]

On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 17:54 +0100, Gerrit Niestijl wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Could a better graphics card result in better realtime performance? I can
> get a good realtime performance on my box (buffersize 64 and less) but
> when using X some display activity seems to cause xruns. E.g sooperlooper
> is far more usable without it's gui.
> 
> This is on a pentium3 600Mhz PC, running gentoo kernel 2.6.14 with rt22
> patch applied. I also prioritize the irq's as documented on this list. The
> graphics card is a Nvidia Vanta LT with 16 Mb memory.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 

The only reliable way to debug this stuff is with the latency tracer
(see the list archives for details).

Lee