On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 09:38:35AM -0400, Joe Hartley wrote: > On Thu, 2 Aug 2012 15:19:02 +0200 (CEST) > "Patrick Shirkey" <pshirkey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > IMO Paul was right to come out full guns blazing on this one. After all > > the effort that has gone into making Linux the most stable audio platform > > over the years it is very dubious behaviour for this person to come out of > > the blue with a direct challenge to the platform without even having the > > courtesy to discuss it first in the LAD list. > > I found it odd that the klang developer has this thing for power management. > My studio machine is not a laptop running on battery power, nor does it > have a heat problem. I really couldn't care less about whether my audio > subsystem allows the CPU to throttle back. My latency is around 5ms, and I > don't have any problem with routing apps through JACK. My studio system > has been very stable for years now. > > Not only is he solving a non-problem, but he's trying to do it without > tapping the knowledge base of the people who have been working on this > for years, and he's trying to do it in a way that is counter to decisions > made at high levels in the kernel dev circles about using FP in the > kernel. > I'll jump in on this power-consumption silliness, just because I'm procrastinating. Almost exactly 3 years ago I did a 3-hour gig on an EEE using battery power. Unintentionally-- I thought I'd plugged in my netbook but I hadn't, and didn't discover it had been unplugged until I was packing up after the gig. No problem, and I still had tons of battery left. I was running an Ingo RT kernel, jackd, linuxsampler with a huge piano sample library, bunch of LADSPA plugins, fluidsynth, and probably some other stuff as well. It was a duo gig-- me and a drummer-- and if anything had messed up I'd certainly have known it. Nothing did. Yeah, anecdotes are not data, but still, neither is what this klang guy is on about. -ken _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
