[LAU] Basic question about use of a lowlatency kernel

Federico Bruni fedelogy at gmail.com
Mon Feb 18 20:44:58 UTC 2013


Il 18/02/2013 21:36, jonetsu at teksavvy.com ha scritto:
> If a better response time from the kernel is something that's Good, why
> isn't lowlatency kernels a default in Linux distros (well, at least in
> Linux Mint and Fedora)  If it is So Good, what are the arguments for not
> having a lowlatency kernel by default ?  Any drawbacks ?  I presume the
> Audio-oriented Linux distros do have lowlatency kernels by default, do
> they ?
>

You can find some information here:
http://www.jackaudio.org/realtime_vs_realtime_kernel

I don't use a RT kernel, I manage to get good low latency with the 
hardware I have.

-- 
Federico


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