[LAU] Trying to get rid of xruns

[Fons Adriaensen]

On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 10:57:28PM +0100, garryo wrote:

> you can set the rt priority as high as 99, but i found that this
> made my box sluggish and unresponsive ( but not the soundcard!).

Isn't that kind of strange ? Assuming the soundcard interrupt
takes a tiny fraction of the available CPU time, it shouldn't
slow down your system even at the highest priority.

If this happens, and it does not happen with your current
(lower) setting, wouldn't that mean that 

1. it takes a more than trivial time to execute,
2. with the current setting it's still being 
   pre-empted, and not just occasianally, but
   in a systematic way.

Ciao, 

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FA

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