Real-time priority

[Guenter Geiger]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Micheal Allen Thompson [mailto:mat0001 at jove.acs.unt.edu]

> I run pd on my SGI under root for performance with the nice negative
> values to increase its priority level, but only for performance
> reasons...

<snip>

> Now I have been messing around with jMax/fts and it runs
> well... would pd
> run as well under real-time system tunings?
>

Yes, it would run more reliable with realtime scheduling, regarding
audio dropouts.
I never had too much improvement using "nice" values.
I know how to do it "correctly" from the Linux side, we just have to team up and
make
a solution for SGI too. Maybe a goal for 0.26 ? ( .. uh  version 0.26 already :)

Guenter