On 19/02/13 04:36, jonetsu@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