On 30 March 2010 06:17, Brian David <beej...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Fritz Meissner <meissner.fr...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Secondly, I have recently seen rather exasperated comments (from >> someone that I respect as an authority) that the mystique surrounding >> "nice" settings is misplaced and that it has virtually nothing to do >> with audio performance. If this is the case, then should that setting >> not be removed from the Controls ?
> > I'd be interested to hear these comments, because from my understanding, > niceness has a lot to do with audio performance. Or, more generally, it has > a lot to with the performance of any process. By setting the niceness of > programs run by users in the Audio group to -19, you are letting the kernel > know that those programs take precedence over most others when deciding how > to allocate CPU resources. How would this not help performance? If this is > misguided, then it would definitely be good to know. > > -- > -Brian David > Brian, The comments I was remembering are in the following two posts on the Linux Audio User mailing list : http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-user/2009-November/064820.html http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-user/2009-November/064828.html I don't have the expertise to evaluate them, but there are enough knowledgeable people on LAU that I would have expected the comments to be shot down if they were out of line (they weren't). I noticed in those posts that they regard rtprio as the critical setting - should this be included in Studio Controls ? Fritz -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
