Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] latency with ardour
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Jul 23 2002 - 16:36:45 EEST
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 02:20:56 +0100, Carlos Figueiredo - Ritualnet wrote:
> (the cpu does not seem the issue, could it be the services I have installed
> in the machine (httpd, mysql, ??), or even the file system, or the missing
> low latency kernel?)
You will need a low latency kernel and be running with SCHED_FIFO to get
decent latency without dropouts.
If your kernel is patched it shouldn't matter what else you're running.
The easyiest way to get SCHED_FIFO is to start ardour as root, but there
are safer ways I believe.
- Steve
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