On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 00:58, Anahata wrote: > On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 03:22:39PM -0700, Florin Andrei wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 14:30, Andrew Dahlin wrote: > > > I assume you're worried about the WM overtaxing the system therefore > > causing xruns. > > > > It should not matter which WM you're using if you are running a proper > > kernel. > > I've been thinking that: I'm glad somebody else said it :-) > > The windows manager and desktop is only user-land code and if jack and > the sound drivers are all running at higher priority all that should > happen while you've got audio apps running is either(a) no difference or > (b) the desktop becomes a little less responsive, depending on the > overall CPU and disk workload. > > For what it's worth I'm running standard Gnome on kernel 2.6.6. I don't > do any heavyweight audio though. arecord records 16/44.1 stereo fine. > > > 2.6 with Ingo's voluntary preempt is actually even better but it's not > > yet 100% stabilized. With one of those kernels and with JACK in > > real-time mode, you could abuse the system pretty badly and it won't > > skip a bit. Does anyone know if a package for this kernel has been done for Mandrake 10.0? I'm not at the pseudo Jedi Warrior level for compiling kernels just yet! :) Although, I HAVE become a master at compiling Wine and fst / jack_fst! :P R~ > That's what I'm looking forward to...
