[LAU] XanMod kernel

[nik at parkellipsen.de]

Hmm I never felt any advantage using RT kernels, either, at least in the recent 
years, so I wonder if they still have any advantage in 2020 ? And that's not a rhetorical
question, I really wonder what contemporary use cases for RT kernels in the audio world are.

I feel like these kernel-tuning approaches date back to times when desktop responsiveness
etc. were much more serious issues. Might be wrong here, of course. 

Best,
n


Robert Jonsson wrote on 04.06.2020 10:04 (GMT +02:00):
> Thanks for bringing this up, I wasn't aware that there were prepackaged
> "high performance" kernels available.
> 
> I briefly tried the xanmod-rt kernel on a laptop that has given me a lot
> of
> xrun grief.
> This was kubuntu 20.04 and the first kernel I tried was xanmod-rt,
> installation was very easy so I can recommend people trying it out,
> switching between kernels during boot is usually simple.
> 
> Anyway, this kernel did not complete the boot sequence so .. not that
> great. Then I tried the xanmod-rt-edge (or something along those lines).
> It
> does boot but sadly does very little to improve the xrun situation.
> 
> This is anecdotal and I'm inclined to think there is something seriously
> wrong with this laptop which makes it inherently rt-unfriendly. But I will
> do more tests as I'm basically a bit disappointed with the realtime-ness
> I've been able to achieve on various hardware lately. I really thought it
> would be easier to achieve reliable performance at, say 44100 and 128
> frame
> buffers.
> It's been a long time since I tried any competing operating systems so I
> might be wrong and assume too much, but I'm pretty sure OS X can do this
> in
> a quite stable way.
> 
> Regards,
> Robert
> 
> 
> Den tis 2 juni 2020 kl 12:48 skrev Roger <gurusonic at gmail.com>:
> 
> > Anyone here using or had experience with XanMod kernels? -
> > https://xanmod.org/
> >
> > I'm currently using Debian Buster with recent Liquorix which works quite
> > well but am now dipping my feet into keyboard-playing waters and wonder
> > if it's worth trying.
> >
> > It does show some advantages in a recent Phoronix test compared to
> > Liquorix -
> >
> https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=xanmod-2020-kernel
> >
> >
> > Roger
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