[linux-audio-user] Re: favorite window Manager for making music?

[Jan Depner]

On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 22:27 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 19:16 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > Just speaking logically, if badly written apps can cause a real-time
> > kernel to have some xruns, then isn't it true that a badly written WM
> > could do the same thing? 
> 
> When I say badly written apps I am taking about the JACK client's
> processing thread.  These xruns are not caused by the kernel.  If a JACK
> client sleeps in the process() callback or tries to do 10ms worth of
> work with a 5ms deadline then xruns are inevitable, the best RTOS in the
> world will not help you.
> 

    Yes, it will.  In VxWorks, if my interrupt is higher priority than
whatever the application is doing then the application will be
interrupted.  Period.  That is hard real-time.

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