Re: [LAU] Realtime Kernel

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 08:00:18PM +0200, Arda Eden wrote: Even the standard kernels have 'realtime support' in the sense that you can have realtime threads. The difference with the -rt kernels is that the latter will allow you to push the limits, by making some possibly long kernel code paths pre-emptable, and by handling interrupts in a more flexible way. But today's 'standard' kernels can perform quite well unless you're unlucky or you want very low latencies. This has no direct relation to the -rt features of the kernel, but it allows normal users (in the 'audio' group) to create realtime threads and to lock memory. Without this you would have to be root to do this. -- FA Laboratorio di Acustica ed Elettroacustica Parma, Italia Lascia la spina, cogli la rosa.