On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 14:19, Lee Revell wrote: > If jackd were running SCHED_FIFO aka realtime, and gnome-terminal as a > normal priority process, it would be a bug (priority inversion) if > gnome-terminal *ever* interfered with jackd's operation. Well, i thought Linux can provide only soft realtime, so the interference is not totally out of question (like it would be on systems that can do hard or "true" realtime). Am i missing something? > Here is the main point they seem to miss: If I upgrade from a circa > 2000 machine (hardware and software) to a 2004, I expect the latter to > be significantly faster *AND* address the limitations of the old > software. In no circumstances should it be slower, or even the same - I > just UPGRADED, remember? My point exactly. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/