drmatt wrote: > And if you read around you will also see that a typical "low latency" > kernel responds, on average, more slowly than a lightly utilised normal > kernel, because the real-time variant is tuned to provide guaranteed > response times, not the fastest possible. > > Secondly, and mainly, as I mentioned above, LMS is forced to wake up and > send a chunk of audio to a player in the range of "several times a > second". The tuning you are talking about is several powers of ten finer > than that. Even a standard kernel gets a clock tick every 1/100th of a > second so will always get your network packet into your app well before > then next buffer needs to be sent. > > This armchair engineer has worked in kernel tuning for decades, and IMHO > you are finessing beyond what is relevant, by several powers of ten. > > I restate: LMS does not play audio, it sends asynchronous data to an > audio player in very large chunks.
Well if you have Golden Ears you would appreciate finessing things beyond what mere mortals think as relevant...:p Yeah I get what you are saying....but...tweaking is fun and if my imagination can perceive a difference [even placebo] then why not? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ edwardthern's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=66099 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106578 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
