13 Jul
2005
13 Jul
'05
5:24 p.m.
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 12:12 -0700, Iain Duncan wrote:
Too heavy. Those systems are designed for things like machine control
where the machine gets damaged if you miss a deadline. A few hundred
microseconds is good enough for audio, and it only has to be at least as
reliable as the rest of your gear.
Lee
In realtime
critical applications people prefer RTLinux or the RTAI extension
to the kernel for periods and scheduling latencies in the low microseconds
range (<30 microseconds worst case scheduling latency on recent x86
hardware).
I've often wondered about that. Why are those sorts of kernels
inappropriate for audio? ( Just out of curiousity. )