On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 9:52 AM, David Henningsson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2010-10-27 04:02, Alessio Igor Bogani wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I would want let you notice that I made a preliminary (and untested) >> version of the Natty -lowlatency kernel for testing. >> It is available through my PPA >> (https://launchpad.net/~abogani/+archive/ppa/+packages?field.name_filter=&field.status_filter=published&field.series_filter=natty). >> >> I suggest to use a VM for first tests at least. >> >> Any feedback is welcome! > Cool, and good timing, since there is a UDS session tomorrow when this > flavour is going to be discussed. Here's some feedback. I'm at UDS but I > was bold enough to install it directly on Maverick, on my laptop with an > HDA card. > > I tried to do some testing and so far I haven't seen any difference. I > haven't experienced any instability or something like that, but I > haven't experienced any improvments either. I tried jack with 256x2 > buffers and got underruns with both the standard Maverick kernel and the > 2.6.36-1-lowlatency kernel. 2x1024 gave no underruns on the generic one, > never tested that setting on the lowlatency version. > > Perhaps I've done something wrong. I should really do more testing, see > if there is any buffer size where there is a difference, and try to get > to the bottom of that to see what's actually causing the underruns. > (Which means I have to learn how to do that...) > > // David
I will try it this weekend with my FA66 firewire card on various settings & workloads, and report back here. Great job Alessio, good to see -lowlatency moving forward for Natty! Cheers, Ronan -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
