[LAU] a lot of xruns after upgrading from ubuntu 8.04 to, 10.04

[Ken Restivo]

On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 11:11:30AM +0100, fons at kokkinizita.net wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 09:04:36PM +0100, Lilli Chiffon wrote:
> 
> > > current settings: RT=true; Priority: 89; Frames: 1024; SR: 44kHz, 
> > > Periods/Buffer: 3; and my latency is 69.7mS
> > > 
> > 
> > Isn't it too high ?
> 
> It is what can be expected with these values:
> 
>   3 * 1024 / 44100 = 0.069659.
> 

Thank you. That is the clearest and simplest explanation I've ever seen for what exactly those numbers mean.

My settings, by the way, with RT kernel and USB audio interface, have been 128 * 3 / 44100 = 8.7mS , for 4 years now, and I can't be more pleased.

-ken