On 19 February 2013 13:36, Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 3:16 AM, Simon Wise <simonzwise@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> aside from the other things mentioned there is a trade-off between GUI >> responsiveness and audio latency ... if you do the full rt-audio set-up then >> the programs you set as very high priority can easily lock everything else >> out. T > > > on modern systems this is unlikely to be the case any more. (a) multicore > (b) kernel mechanisms to reserve a (small) fraction of available CPU for > non-RT tasks. > Indeed, I've had the same basic setup for a number of years, and this month was the first time I noticed any slowdown in the rest of my system while doing audio, and only now because I was working on a session with a number of tracks and plugins far beyond most stuff I've worked on before. The quadcore has been good to me for a long time. Arve _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
