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

Steve Underwood (steveu@netpage.com.hk)
Sun, 25 Jul 1999 02:13:21 +0000


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..

Isn't "real time multimedia without touching the disk" an oxymoron?

Steve

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