On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 12:22 +0100, Florian Schmidt wrote: > On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 20:10:20 -0500 > Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 17:05 -0800, thewade wrote: > > > I am curious how to get PD running on my machine > > > processing complex patches but with a latency of 5.33 msec (128 frame > > > buffer size I think) or less. I would even settle fo 10msec (256) with > > > no XRUNS. > > > > > > > You don't need the -rt kernel for that, the standard kernel will work. > > > > Lee > > > > Oh well, not for everyone. If you want to be sure and have no xrun > whatsoever a -rt kernel is definetly the better choice imho (don't have > data to back that up though) I do have some data to back this up, I ran about 100 million samples with 2.6.14 and the biggest latency I saw was ~0.6 ms. For the buffer sizes he wants to use 2.6.14 will work fine. Of course you won't be able to sustain quite as high a DSP load but given the problems people are having with the -rt kernel on x64 it's worth investigating. Lee
