i noticed from luca's initial report on firm timers that switching the caps lock LED on and off is a notable source of latency in the kernel, on the order of 7msec.
several people have noted problems with this either on ardour-dev or on LAD, and i just wanted to assure them that they are not imagining things. the reason that i have never seen it, i suspect, is that i run on a dual processor system, and the delay it causes on one processor does not stop the other from continuing on, unlike the situation on a UP system. --p
