On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 17:54 +0100, Gerrit Niestijl wrote: > Hi all, > > Could a better graphics card result in better realtime performance? I can > get a good realtime performance on my box (buffersize 64 and less) but > when using X some display activity seems to cause xruns. E.g sooperlooper > is far more usable without it's gui. > > This is on a pentium3 600Mhz PC, running gentoo kernel 2.6.14 with rt22 > patch applied. I also prioritize the irq's as documented on this list. The > graphics card is a Nvidia Vanta LT with 16 Mb memory. > > Any thoughts? > The only reliable way to debug this stuff is with the latency tracer (see the list archives for details). Lee
