[PD] Installing PD under Linux

[guenter geiger]

On Thu, 29 May 2003, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> 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.
>

That is not true in general. PD has lowest possible latency
when using OSS or ALSA OSS layer. Latency is higher with the ALSA layer
because of the way it is written (non-blocking mode).

There is a kernel patch that helps around this problem with ALSA.

Problems arise if you use and display too many builtin graphical objects.

Guenter


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