On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 19:16 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > Either the kernel is safe and handles this stuff or it isn;t 'safe' > and cannot stop it. I understand from other conversations that some > apps are considered to be non-realtime safe. I do not understand how > anyone could ever know that a WM is truly rt safe. How? > WMs are not RT anything - a correctly written JACK client will interface with the GUI in a realtime safe way. If the JACK client tries to do GUI stuff in the RT thread of course you are screwed. > Just because one uses Gnome, fluxbox or fvwm and doesn't see xruns is > not proof that it's truly rt safe. You cannot prove a negative, > etc.... > These programs do not even enter into the picture - GUI stuff runs at normal priority and audio stuff at RT priority so it's impossible for the GUI to block the audio. Unless the app is broken. Lee
