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On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Giorgio - Audiophilo

 wrote:

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>> Are you sure you need an rt kernel? You can get realtime scheduling

>> for Jack with the stock kernel in Ubuntu and Ubuntu Studio.

>>

>> http://www.jackaudio.org/realtime_vs_realtime_kernel

>>

>

> Well, since the page says:

>

> A kernel built with the realtime patches (an "RT kernel") is needed only if:

>

> You want to run JACK with very low latency settings that require realtime

> performance that can only be achieved with an RT kernel

>

> I would say yes. I have a professional studio, so i need the best

> performance in terms of latency.

> I wonder why they put the rt kernel out of the repos.

rt-patch only available for 2.6.33 and Ubuntu probably doesn't want a

kernel that old in their latest release. I think the rt-kernel was

always maintained by a separate pro-audio group in any case, probably

there were manpower problems.

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