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 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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org