Am 09.01.2012 15:24, schrieb Moshe Werner:
Hi everyone, after many years of studio work using the openSuse distro with the kernel-rt from Jan Engelhard it seems that he no longer continues his great work on rt kernels.
This made me somewhat puzzeled too until I tried the kernel desktop for Suse to find out, that it delivers real good.
I have virtually the same results on the same machine. The only difference is, that the desktop-kernel is not the same as solid if Jack is set for very low latency (such as: lower than 5ms). For the reall-world day to day work with big Ardour-projects, I cannot find any difference regarding xruns.
Being more on the recording engineer side of things and not a Linux expert (user yes, expert no) I really fret at the thought of patching and compiling my own kernel package. I would like to hear your opinions on what distro is solid for audio work and has a reliable rt kernel. Also I would appreciate if you could explain the degree of difficulty and learning curve of the specific distro. My system: Intel i7 950 Gigabyte motherboard 6 Gb ram Rme HDSP 9652 audio interface Appreciate your answers. Moshe P.S. I tried to use Ubuntu on the same machine I use openSuse 11.2 on and got pretty bad results regarding latency and x runs on jack 2.
Ubuntu works OK for me here but is indeed not as solid and powerful as Suses desktop-kernel. At the other hand I tend to use it anyway. There are more xruns but not too many (about 2-3/h under serious load), it is quite stable and forgiving(not a single case of jackd crashed or frozen) and the best: it is the most comfortable distro I ever had. Listening to youtube-videos or using any sound-source imaginable while Ardour is up and running whithout even the need to think about how this happens is kind of nice methinks ;-)
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