19 Feb
2013
19 Feb
'13
2:22 p.m.
On 19 February 2013 13:36, Paul Davis <paul(a)linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 3:16 AM, Simon Wise
<simonzwise(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Indeed, I've had the same basic setup for a number of years, and this
month was the first time I noticed any slowdown in the rest of my
system while doing audio, and only now because I was working on a
session with a number of tracks and plugins far beyond most stuff I've
worked on before. The quadcore has been good to me for a long time.
Arve
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.