19 Feb
2006
19 Feb
'06
9:01 p.m.
On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 17:12 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 14:03 -0800, thewade wrote:
This may be true as far as CPU use is concerned but how about I/O?
If your desktop or background processes start doing I/O and you need the
disk I believe that may cause you some problems. I/O requests will swap
you out of the CPU but at the lowest level can you interrupt an I/O
process that is going to disk?
I do know from experience that I have far fewer xruns running
fluxbox than I do with KDE. I have done recording using both and if I'm
doing fairly heavy disk I/O (say recording 8-10 tracks) I don't have as
many problems with fluxbox.
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Quoting Carlo Capocasa <capocasa(a)gmx.net>et>:
The "processing overhead" of one desktop environment vs. another is
negligible on a modern system. On a correctly set up system with
properly written RT apps the desktop won't be able to interfere with the
RT stuff anyway.
XFCE, the shining star among all linux desktops,
with audio menu open.
http://xthost.info/capocasa/xfce4audio.png
Carlo
How does this do for processing overhead? 