[ubuntu-studio-devel] ubuntustudio controls

[Kaj Ailomaa]

On Sat, Jun 14, 2014, at 04:45 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> JFTR, keep in mind that for RT nice values are nonsense.
> The only good values for RT audio are:
> 
> rtprio  99
> memlock         unlimited
> 

Why?

> If you guess a nice value would be useful, then you need to set up
> rtprio < 99, since there is no nice for RT.

Are you explaining that here? Could you clarify?

> 
> Likely memlock could become an issue too.

You mean, from being set to "unlimited"?

> 
> And please search LAU, LAD, and I guess especially jack-devel threads
> for frantic efforts to provide apps that automatically do set up jackd
> latency settings. IT'S IMPOSSIBLE!

Could be done with a diagnostic application that does stress tests to
find a good default.

> 
> Don't write an app that fakes to support something, that cannot be
> supported.
> 

These are just ideas, so far.

> 
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