Real-time kernel? (was: The audio group)

[Scott Lavender]

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 2:55 AM, David Henningsson <
david.henningsson at canonical.com> wrote:

> 2010-09-07 02:17, Chris Jones skrev:
> > I know I've raised the question before regarding the inclusion of the
> > real-time kernel in Ubuntu Studio, but why exactly is it necessary?
>
> That's a good question. Abogani has written a small overview of his take
> on it here:
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2010-March/009323.html
>
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And to answer Chris's question very succinctly; better performance.

The -rt kernel can help lower latency and minimize the number of xruns so
that your recording doesn't drop anything or create artifacts such as
popping.