[linux-audio-user] Re: x86_64 and ingo's realtime patches, works?

[Wolfgang Woehl]

Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com>:
> On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 10:16 +0100, Wolfgang Woehl wrote:
> > Mike Taht <mike.taht at gmail.com>:
> > > Over these nearly 3 days of constant operation I've had
> > > about 41 xruns (as best as I can tell, related to major
> > > program startup (things like openoffice) and heavy
> > > swapping). The maximum scheduling latency was 31.177
> > > msec.
> >
> > Have you tried cdparanoia / cdrecord as workload?
>
> What would be the point of that?  cdrecord runs at the
> maximum RT priority so of course it will cause xruns, it's
> the expected behavior.

Ah ok, I never looked closer. Do you know whether this maximum 
priority for cdrecord and the like is still a necessity on 
contemporary machines and kernels?

Wolfgang