[LAU] Basic question about use of a lowlatency kernel

Brett McCoy idragosani at gmail.com
Mon Feb 18 20:43:57 UTC 2013


On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 3:36 PM,  <jonetsu at teksavvy.com> wrote:

> 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
> ?

Ubuntu Studio uses low-latency kernel by default, and I am pretty sure
some of the other multimedia distros do also.

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