12 Aug
2004
12 Aug
'04
4:22 a.m.
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 03:22:39PM -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:
On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 14:30, Andrew Dahlin wrote:
I assume you're worried about the WM overtaxing
the system therefore
causing xruns.
It should not matter which WM you're using if you are running a proper
kernel.
I've been thinking that: I'm glad somebody else said it :-)
The windows manager and desktop is only user-land code and if jack and
the sound drivers are all running at higher priority all that should
happen while you've got audio apps running is either(a) no difference or
(b) the desktop becomes a little less responsive, depending on the
overall CPU and disk workload.
For what it's worth I'm running standard Gnome on kernel 2.6.6. I don't
do any heavyweight audio though. arecord records 16/44.1 stereo fine.
2.6 with Ingo's voluntary preempt is actually even
better but it's not
yet 100% stabilized. With one of those kernels and with JACK in
real-time mode, you could abuse the system pretty badly and it won't
skip a bit.
That's what I'm looking forward to...
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