Anahata wrote <snip> > Is there a kernel guru who can advise? I'm not a kernel guru, but have some experience.... > Possible options seem to be: > 1. Apply low latency patches I ran a 2.4.20 for several months (cannot remember which one). Decent performance was only possible with every patch I could find (512M ram on Duron 800). I used a separate physical disk for capturing the audio, and suffered _severe_ problems with ext3 (corrupted partitions) which are not related to realtime priorities. > 2. Upgrade to 2.4.22 I've skipped over this step in favour of..... > 3. Upgrade to 2.6.0 I'm currently running 2.6.0_test10 (with Gentoo MM patches). Minimal setup (JACK, Ardour, Muse, Fluidsynth * 2) produces no xruns (512M ram, Duron 1.2G) > 4. something else? R
