Re: real-time threaded IO with low latency (audio)

Bill Huey (billh@mag.ucsd.edu)
Sat, 24 Jul 1999 12:10:15 -0700 (PDT)


> Oliver Xymoron wrote:

> On an unloaded system, yes, you can be clever with mlock() and pre-fault
> everything before going into your critical code, but the people who are
> begging for RT performance for multimedia stuff don't understand that it
> means running with basically no load and giving up tons of memory and not
> touching the disk, etc..

Uh that's pretty typical arrogant *not-so-smart* Unix mentality.
Try capturing a 200 megabyte video stream without touching the disk.

You'll fail flat out.

bill

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