On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 10:49:11 -0400 Eric Dantan Rzewnicki <rzewnickie@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Correct, it's not an issue for apps driven by hardware interrupts like > > JACK, because the sound card consumes data at a constant rate. But for > > MIDI or video where you have to periodically push data to the device it > > matters. > > What is driving the kernel-devs to regress on this issue? Well, i suppose it's a tradeoff between throughput and responsiveness. Larger timeslices increase system throughput (less time is spent in the scheduler) while smaller timeslices increase responsiveness. Flo -- Palimm Palimm! http://affenbande.org/~tapas/
