On 2011. 01. 25., Tuesday 00:46:12 Philipp Thomas wrote:
Could you please honour common netiquette and post with a line length of less than 75 characters? Tahnk you.
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:30:46 +0530, "phanisvara das"
<listmail@phanisvara.com> wrote:
my understanding is that it's needed for certain applications, like real-time audio recording / editing, that don't function well if they get only a slice of the kernel's attention, but that for general purpose it's not as good as desktop or default (server) flavors.
Audio recording needs low latencies but *not* real-time. The most
I would challenge this statement. If you have only basic needs then you will probably be fine with the desktop kernel. But if you are serious about recording and editing audio then you definitely need the real time kernel. Btw, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JACK_Audio_Connection_Kit : "The scheduling requirements of JACK to achieve sufficiently low latencies have been one of the driving forces behind the real-time optimization effort for the current Linux 2.6 kernel series,[5][6] whose initial latency performance had been disappointing compared to the older 2.4 series."
prominent applications for real-time are computer controlled manufacturing and automatic trading systems for investment banking, i.e. where you need guaranteed response times. But as that limits I/O and thus throughput it's not what you want on either server or desktop.
Philipp
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