On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 14:29, Paul Davis wrote: > but this is for JACK Rack, not a MIDI sequencer. we're talking about > controlling things from a control surface. why does it need to be so > "deterministic" when its already inherently sloppy? nobody suggests > that the X server and the GUI thread should be SCHED_FIFO so that > mouse-based control is "deterministic" ...
Not sure what this determinism is about, but the UI thread doesn't seem to suffer the same effects of non-SCHED_FIFO-ness that the midi thread does; that's why the midi thread has SCHED_FIFO. I'm not sure *why* the midi thread suffers; both the midi thread and ui thread operate in pretty much exactly the same way. The only difference is the alsa sequencer is involved; perhaps it's something to do with that. Bob -- Bob Ham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
