comments on late joyrides re: rt performance

[Richard A. Smith]

victor wrote:

> which uses a soundfont synthesis engine. On the older system, I
> can play most files with only the occasional dropout, generally
> quite solidly. But on the later (2232 and 2263), I get many more
> dropouts. Every now and then the OS seems to get a break and
> go out for coffee or something and the playback gets interrupted for
> a few ms. I wondered about a change in
> preemption settings in the kernel that comes with the new OS.

See:

http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7603

We are trying to track it down.

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Richard Smith  <richard at laptop.org>
One Laptop Per Child