Ray Rashif wrote: > 2009/9/13 david <gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> > > Ray Rashif wrote: > > > 7200RPM is absolutely necessary to be rid of that bottleneck, > first and > > foremost. A 5400RPM imposes a practical limit to the minimum size > of the > > buffer, and from experience this can be as big as 256 (meaning > anything > > lower you get xruns regardless of how good your audio interface is). > > Interesting, will have to try that on the synthesizer laptop. It's got a > 5400RPM drive ... Reporting back the results of my attempts to achieve low latency on an older Celeron laptop with a 5400RPM hard drive. > * And don't forget to report back the result so we can conclude it as > true :) Any buffer size smaller than 1024 causes xruns. With my UCA202 USB sound card, that makes 64msec latency the lowest I can get right now. Although I'm not sure the RT setup on that laptop is fully configured properly ... -- David gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx authenticity, honesty, community _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user