[PD] Installing PD under Linux

Frank Barknecht fbar at footils.org
Thu May 29 18:53:28 CEST 2003


Hallo,
matthew jones hat gesagt: // matthew jones wrote:

> do you know if anyone has compared this special 'low-latency' installation
> with, say, ASIO in winXP?  is it likely that latency could be brought down
> even further?  I'm just considering moving to RedHat, and apart from the
> fact that the -realtime (priority) command is only available under linux,
> and there is probably more control on the junk in the background processes,
> if even lower latency is possible then it's a must.

You can get much lower latency than Windows has with a patched Linux
kernel (or kernel 2.5).  But Pd doesn't profit too much from that, I
think, because of the way it processes the audio data. Pd has always a
bit bigger latency.

ciao
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 Frank Barknecht                               _ ______footils.org__




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