Real-time Linux

[Michael Willis]

This is exciting news: Real-time Linux is officially part of the kernel after decades of debate

[Audiojunkie]

This is exciting news: Real-time Linux is officially part of the kernel after decades of debate

Yep! It's a beautiful thing! I've been waiting for years for them to finish. We are finally at the end! A 20+ year drive coming true!!

[Tapper]

Is there reliable comparsion - realtime vs "normal" kernel? Is there any improvement for music creation at all? I didn't get any stable numbers in my experience.

[sunrat]

This is also being discussed in another thread - viewtopic.php?t=27466

[erlkönig]

Is there reliable comparsion - realtime vs "normal" kernel? Is there any improvement for music creation at all? I didn't get any stable numbers in my experience.

I can't give numbers - but my workhorse, an Optiplex (viewtopic.php?p=159388), really benefits from a realtime kernel. The more modern computers i have do great work concerning audio with standard non-rt kernels. So on older machines the way i would go for was rt.

It was a long way from beginning rt-kernel up to now. No more patching and fiddling with setrlimits...