[LAU] Realtime Kernel

[Arda Eden]

So what does a realtime kernel change ? Makes my latency 1 ms ?


On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Arnold Krille <arnold at arnoldarts.de> wrote:

> Am Dienstag, 18. März 2008 schrieb Mark Knecht:
> > On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Arda Eden <ardaeden at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > So is it really necessary to have a realtime kernel in order to use
> linux
> > > audio applications without any latencies or xruns ?
> > It is not possible to use ANY kernel with NO latencies. EVERY kernel
> > has latencies. The question is how low do you want the latencies to
> > be? If you can exist with 50mS or higher you might get away with a
> > standard kernel. If you want to run with 1.2mS latency then you will
> > absolutely have to have a real-time enabled kernel.
>
> Still it has to be noted that you can achieve 5ms latency without a
> RT-kernel... Even with an el-cheapo builtin soundcard...
>
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