On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 3:16 AM, Simon Wise <simonzwise(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 19/02/13 04:36, jonetsu(a)teksavvy.com wrote:
If a better response time from the kernel is
something that's Good, why
isn't
lowlatency kernels a default in Linux distros (well, at least in Linux
Mint and
Fedora) If it is So Good, what are the arguments for not having a
lowlatency
kernel by default ? Any drawbacks ? I presume the Audio-oriented Linux
distros
do have lowlatency kernels by default, do they ?
aside from the other things mentioned there is a trade-off between GUI
responsiveness and audio latency ... if you do the full rt-audio set-up
then the programs you set as very high priority can easily lock everything
else out. T
on modern systems this is unlikely to be the case any more. (a) multicore
(b) kernel mechanisms to reserve a (small) fraction of available CPU for
non-RT tasks.