[PD] another day's raspberry pi experiences

geoffroy gef at ponnuki.net
Tue Sep 11 19:10:34 CEST 2012


Thanks for the clarification, I though I read that a RT-Kernel would 
improve on the pureData responsiveness for the raspberry pi, good to 
know that it's probably not needed.


On 09/11/2012 06:59 PM, pd-list-request at iem.at wrote:
> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 17:42:03 +0200
> From: Charles Goyard<cg at fsck.fr>
> Subject: Re: [PD] another day's raspberry pi experiences
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> Geoffroy wrote:
>> >  I read that a real time kernel would be quite useful on a raspberry pi
>> >  for pure data, and I wonder if this project would help:
> Maybe there's a confusion between real-time priority (standard kernel)
> and hard real-time (RT kernel).
>
> Hard real-time is more for really time-critical stuff down to
> microseconds, like driving a CNC or stuff. Having a real-time task
> running can feel like your computer is super-slow. It's more made for
> single task processing.
>
> As far as pd is concerned, I'd say real-time priority is
> enough, and is configured with /etc/security/limits.conf.
>
> ++
> -- Charlot




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