Re: [LAD] Any package builders here?

I might get flamed for this however GUI should not really be run with rt priority, that is an honour for the DSP engines. There are some reasonable arguments however for leaning on the scheduler with renice for the user interfaces to give them a bit of a bias over other system operations. Admittedly a big topic since the GUI probably sits on top of the windowing system anyway. So I have not used renice on graphics/GUI processes but I have worked on systems where the RT DSP code is happily chewing up 75% of CPU to churn out 32 unified synth voices and the GUI response can then give a bad impression of an application. Renice will help the sometime intensive graphics manipulation code (which is surprisingly close to DSP anyway if you are doing subpixel image transforms with shadow rendering) to get a little more of the now starved system resources. I don't see any point to advise not giving the audio group access to this option since you can argue that, whilst it does not do anything very spectacular, it is not going to damage system integrity any further than the already active RT priority rights. Low latency audio systems are all about tuning and this remains one of the tools available to you. Regards, cnik. "we have to make sure the old choice [Windows] doesn't disappear”. Jim Wong, president of IT products, Acer