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

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Sat, 2010-07-10 at 12:28 -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.

Current vanilla kernels are getting to be pretty good for audio use. Not
as good as rt patched but pretty good. If it works for you then no
problem. 

BTW, were you reviewing your logs and the output of dmesg for abnormal
kernel messages before using fc12/13? I ask that because abrt (a bug
report tool) is now flagging kernel messages as kernel "crashes" which
might had been happening all along. 

Some kernel "crashes" have side effects and you will notice (for example
your computer hangs and that's it :-)

Others are kernel bugs that should not happen but are happening and are
now being reported as "crashes" (and should be fixed), but in my
experience do not have side effects - right now, for example, I have
kernel "crashes" every time I cycle my laptop through a suspend/resume
cycle (2.6.33.6 rt23 on fc12) but nothing has broken so far because of
that. 

-- Fernando