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On 8/2/06, Lee Revell  wrote:

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> On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 11:04 +1000, Loki Davison wrote:

> > On 8/2/06, Lee Revell  wrote:

> > > On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 20:39 -0400, M P Smoak wrote:

> > > > On Tuesday 01 August 2006 11:58, Lee Revell wrote:

> > > > > Disagree, using Fluxbox over Gnome is not likely to make a

> difference

> > > > > with a recent kernel.

> > > > >

> > > > > Lee

> > > >

> > > > Lee, do you think that the same can be said about KDE rather than

> Gnome?

> > >

> > > Yes.  With a kernel patched for realtime, or a recent unpatched 2.6

> > > kernel, the choice of desktop/window manager will have no impact on

> > > realtime audio performance (as measured by number of xruns), as long as

> > > JACK is running in realtime mode.

> > >

> > > The belief that stripping down your desktop will improve realtime audio

> > > performance is a holdover from the bad old 2.4/early 2.6 days.

> > >

> > > Lee

> > >

> > >

> >

> > though if you have limited memory it can still help, right? I.e if the

> > system needs to swap because of a big desktop running? Not that i

> > really know, i run KDE and i've got 2GB ram ;)

> >

>

> I guess if you are very resource constrained it would help.  Audio

> performance won't be affected, your desktop just might get slower if you

> run into swap.  But I was referring to the general case.

>

> Lee

>

>

So short answer is really running a decent kernel solves all the other

worries ;)
Loki