Low latency kernel in Karmic to help with PulseAudio?

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Martes 05 Mayo 2009 9:28:20 PM Vishal Rao wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Whilst participating in the Karmic forums, I remembered a discussion about
> some distros like Fedora running
> a low-latency kernel which helped with PulseAudio.
> 
> Is there going to be discussion during UDS amongst yourselves (devs) about
> enabling low-latency for Karmic as well?
> 
> See this mailing list post by Lennart of PulseAudio/Fedora fame:
> https://tango.0pointer.de/pipermail/pulseaudio-discuss/2009-
February/003150.html
> 
> And, I wonder if enabling low-latency mode also improves responsiveness of
> the user desktop...

A real-time (-rt) kernel is available and has been for at least a few 
releases.  PREEMPT (which Lennart says would help) was enabled once upon a 
time, but I think it was disabled due to high laptop battery usage or 
something like that.  After that email from Lennart, discussion about it came 
up again, but it was way too late in Jaunty's cycle to be changed by that 
point.

But uh yeah...I do intend to at least bring it up at UDS and see what the 
kernel team says.

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
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