Re: [LAU] Laptop specs

Ray Rashif wrote:
> 2009/9/13 david <gnome@email-addr-hidden <mailto:gnome@email-addr-hidden>>
>
> Ray Rashif wrote:
>
> > 7200RPM is absolutely necessary to be rid of that bottleneck,
> first and
> > foremost. A 5400RPM imposes a practical limit to the minimum size
> of the
> > buffer, and from experience this can be as big as 256 (meaning
> anything
> > lower you get xruns regardless of how good your audio interface is).
>
> Interesting, will have to try that on the synthesizer laptop. It's got a
> 5400RPM drive ...

Reporting back the results of my attempts to achieve low latency on an
older Celeron laptop with a 5400RPM hard drive.

> * And don't forget to report back the result so we can conclude it as
> true :)

Any buffer size smaller than 1024 causes xruns. With my UCA202 USB sound
card, that makes 64msec latency the lowest I can get right now. Although
I'm not sure the RT setup on that laptop is fully configured properly ...

-- 
David
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