[LAU] jack2 set to realtime / soft mode, normal kernel ?

[Jonathan E. Brickman]

Surprisingly enough, I am using a period of 64.  Apparently kernel
development is going strong :-)

J.E.B.

On Sat, 2010-07-10 at 22:04 +0200, fons at kokkinizita.net wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 12:28:25PM -0500, Jonathan E. Brickman wrote:
>  
> > I was very surprised to see Jack2 working well set to realtime +
> > soft mode, with a normal (non-rt) kernel, giving me 2.67 ms stated
> > latency without kernel crashes in Fedora 13.  Anyone doing it this
> > way?  Anyone see disadvantages?  So far it's pretty gravy for me.
> 
> I've been using unpatched (for RT) kernels (2.6.32 and 2.6.33) for
> some time on a number of audio systems, and they all work very well
> with period sizes of 256 and 128 (didn't test any lower ones).
> Seems like unpatched kernels are performing quite well these days.
> The only problem I've had was with the 'nouveau' video module for
> Nvidia cards - on two systems it made even a period size of 1024 
> unusable (and I had to replace it with the older nv) while on the
> others there were no problems at all.
> 
> Ciao,
>