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Audio latency goes full circle

Audio latency goes full circle

Posted Feb 18, 2005 6:15 UTC (Fri) by conman (guest, #14830)
In reply to: Audio latency goes full circle by andyh
Parent article: Audio latency goes full circle

Because a fully cpu bound application locks up the whole machine, which it does not do with normal cpu scheduling policies. Running the application "yes" with real time scheduling will lock up the machine.


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Audio latency goes full circle

Posted Feb 19, 2005 18:48 UTC (Sat) by andyh (guest, #26163) [Link]

I believe that the proposed patches would throttle back any process that exceeded a user set cpu limit.

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