19 Sep
2007
19 Sep
'07
11:48 p.m.
Le Dimanche, 16 Septembre 2007 14:54:52 +0100,
David Haggett <david(a)haggett.demon.co.uk> a écrit :
Until recently I have been running SUSE 9.3 x86_64
with a
self-compiled realtime kernel (using the realtime-lsm). I have now
upgraded to openSUSE 10.2 because I was having difficulties
installing the latest versions of certain applications.
I'm very happy with the distribution generally, but I'd now like to
get my audio performance back to what it was. Via the installation
and set-up forum at jacklab, I have been directed to realtime kernel,
kernel-source and PAM packages for x86_64 at:
This raises an interesting question. How come I can use the plain
Fedora Core 6 kernel (and not the real-time CCRMA kernel) to do audio
works on a x86_64 dual core with 4 GB RAM without any problems ? Is it
because I'm not doing much ? I mean, I do not record a chamber
orchestra in real time while jiggling the screen with beryl,
compiling OpenOffice and letting goddamned beagle run loose all at the
same time ? And leaving Konqueror open with one of those pages that
mysteriously drains CPU cycles to make good measure.
Or is it the dual core ? Or the RAM ?
Or is it because the Fedora team already incorporates real-time
mechanism into their kernels ?
In other words, why wouldn't the standard OpenSuSE kernel be enough ?
Cheers,
Al