[LAU] Question about rt kernel in Ubuntu

[Oon-Ee Ng]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Giorgio - Audiophilo
<anomalsound at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Are you sure you need an rt kernel? You can get realtime scheduling
>> for Jack with the stock kernel in Ubuntu and Ubuntu Studio.
>>
>> http://www.jackaudio.org/realtime_vs_realtime_kernel
>>
>
> Well, since the page says:
>
> A kernel built with the realtime patches (an "RT kernel") is needed only if:
>
> You want to run JACK with very low latency settings that require realtime
> performance that can only be achieved with an RT kernel
>
> I would say yes. I have a professional studio, so i need the best
> performance in terms of latency.
> I wonder why they put the rt kernel out of the repos.

rt-patch only available for 2.6.33 and Ubuntu probably doesn't want a
kernel that old in their latest release. I think the rt-kernel was
always maintained by a separate pro-audio group in any case, probably
there were manpower problems.