System requirements - Was: Out of Space

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 2016-08-10 at 16:08 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Aug 2016 13:50:07 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote: 
> > > 
> > > enough for pro-audio, as 4 GiB of RAM are either, the frequency
> > > scaling governor just needs to be at a fixed frequency, usually
> > > "performance".  
> > why ? do you not trust the kernel devs ? the ondemand governor will do
> > the right thing if needed and not waste power when not needed ...
> 
> That's nonsense, on most machines it does cause xruns. It's a well
> known issue. JFTR there nearly is no difference in power consumption
> between ondemand and performance on many machines, I anyway recommend
> to use it when not doing real-time audio work.

Let alone that an rt patched kernel not necessarily provides the
frequency scaling governor at all, regarding CPU related issues.