[64studio-devel] Rather real time than security

[Michael Pacey]

I'm just a 64 studio user, like you, giving you my opinion.

There's nothing you can botch up by enabling networking that can't be 
unbotched easily later. It's easy to enable and disable network 
interfaces. It's not a big decision :0)

I can't say definitively there are no bugs in any network drivers that 
might cause a problem with realtime audio. I don't know all the code; I 
don't know ANY of the code. But the possibility seems pretty small if 
you are using a standard, well supported NIC, because there are lots of 
other people using standard well supported NICs and I've never heard of 
people disabling NICs as insurance against audio glitches. I have been 
following Linux audio for several years.

Test your system once it's built, if it seems stable it probably is 
stable.  What can go wrong? I mean, you are presumably going to spend 
some time playing and learning with the system before you go out and 
make a recording of some unrepeatable performance.

If Jack has a glitch, it will show itself as an xrun which will appear 
in red in the Jack Control application.

Michael


mmmmna wrote:
> I'm just being cautious, asking before I botch up an installation and
> before I ruin my projects and before I learn the hard way that what I
> had done would be considered 'poor judgment'.
>
> Why should I not ask before trying? I can't imagine anyone that wants
> to use 64S to run Ardour who would also want to find out (the hard
> way) that their work got trashed by the kernel being interrupted.
>
> Maybe I'm posting to a wrong mailing list??
>
>
> On 2/8/07, Michael Pacey <michael at wd21.co.uk> wrote:
>   
>> Are you actually having problems or is this in theory? If it's just
>> theory, try it and see. As I understand it, because Jack runs in
>> realtime, it gets preference over non-realtime apps.
>>
>> Certainly, I have never ever experienced a problem that I would put down
>> to network activity.
>>
>> If your computer is fairly modern and you have a decent card then it
>> should be capable of doing network and audio at the same time.
>>
>>
>> But try it, and see.
>>
>>     
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