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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Question about kaiman
From:       Stefan Westerfeld <stefan () space ! twc ! de>
Date:       2000-09-29 13:58:11
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   Hi!

On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 01:47:33PM +0200, Pascal Francq wrote:
> I am using KDE2 (1.94) and kaiman. I have configure my sound server (artsd) 
> with realtime priority and a response time of 10 ms. But, when I use kaiman 
> to hear mp3, each time I do something (for example delete a mail or change 
> the file I currently edit in kdevelop), I have a "break" in the song.
> Is there a way to configure that (giving the necessary priority to kaiman to 
> avoid these breaks) or is it a bug?

The problem here is actually the linux kernel. The standard kernel can't serve
tasks which have 10ms latency requirements reliably, even if they are running
with realtime priority. There are kernel patches around which improve that
behaviour, but even those fail in well-known situations (i.e. deleting a
100MB file).

   Cu... Stefan
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