[linux-audio-user] Linux DAW otimization (and Kanotix)

[Lee Revell]

On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 20:11 +0100, Wolfgang Hoffmann wrote:
> 
> Default max_sectors_kb is 1024, giving me casual xruns of up to 16 ms
> on an idle machine. With max_sectors_kb at 64, xruns reduce to max. 5
> ms. Setting max_sectors_kb smaller than 64 seems to give no further
> improvement.
> 
> So it definitely helps, but not enough to go without -rt for me. 

Yup, that's very close to my results.  Does the frequency of xruns
decrease, or just the length?

The remaining xruns are likely to be related to route cache flushing
which is still being worked on.  There's no workaround yet.

Lee