On Mon, Feb 09,
2004 at 07:32:35PM -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
its a basic problem with real time software, the
POSIX API etc.
JACK tries to lock *all* the process memory.
This is to ensure that nothing gets swapped out, right ?
Else it is very hard to ensure real time performance ?
(sorry for being somewhat ignorant in this matter).
well, swapping is one aspect. page faults are the other. either way,
yes, we need to ensure that real-time code is never stalled waiting
for data to be bought into memory from disk storage.