Re: Realtime Kernel

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So what does a realtime kernel change ? Makes my latency 1 ms ?


On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Arnold Krille <arnold@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Am Dienstag, 18. März 2008 schrieb Mark Knecht:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Arda Eden <ardaeden@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > So is it really necessary to have a realtime kernel in order to use linux
> > audio applications without any latencies or xruns ?
> It is not possible to use ANY kernel with NO latencies. EVERY kernel
> has latencies. The question is how low do you want the latencies to
> be? If you can exist with 50mS or higher you might get away with a
> standard kernel. If you want to run with 1.2mS latency then you will
> absolutely have to have a real-time enabled kernel.

Still it has to be noted that you can achieve 5ms latency without a
RT-kernel... Even with an el-cheapo builtin soundcard...

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