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On 19 February 2013 13:36, Paul Davis  wrote:

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> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 3:16 AM, Simon Wise  wrote:

>> aside from the other things mentioned there is a trade-off between GUI

>> responsiveness and audio latency ... if you do the full rt-audio set-up then

>> the programs you set as very high priority can easily lock everything else

>> out. T

>

>

> on modern systems this is unlikely to be the case any more. (a) multicore

> (b) kernel mechanisms to reserve a (small) fraction of available CPU for

> non-RT tasks.

>

Indeed, I've had the same basic setup for a number of years, and this

month was the first time I noticed any slowdown in the rest of my

system while doing audio, and only now because I was working on a

session with a number of tracks and plugins far beyond most stuff I've

worked on before. The quadcore has been good to me for a long time.

Arve

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