Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] about hdparm (and csound)
From: Josh Green (jgreen_AT_users.sourceforge.net)
Date: Fri Oct 05 2001 - 09:30:23 EEST
On Thu, 2001-10-04 at 20:55, dave willis wrote:
> On 4 Oct 2001, Josh Green wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2001-10-03 at 13:14, Peter Surda wrote:
> > > I think you are misinterpreting this. It means that if you type
> > > hdparm -blahblahblah
> > > it has negative impact on the latency, hence you should not run it often.
> > > Having it in initscripts is usually enough.
> >
> > I really doubt that. I think that list of things not to do is while you
> > are running your RT task. I don't see why hdparm would make your machine
> > worse and worse with latency each time you run it. It probably just
> > kills 50ms when ran.
>
> i think you're misinterperating peter as well, as he did not say that it
> "would make your machine worse and worse." he's saying basically the same
> as you. there's no need to run it more than once per boot, so i do just
> have it in my init (for my ide hd and dvd drive) and forget about it.
>
> -dave
>
Now that I read over what he said again.. I probably did mis-interpret
it. Ahh well. Probably suited my mood at the time :)
--
Josh Green
Smurf Sound Font Editor (http://smurf.sourceforge.net)
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