[13:37] <zequence> Just tried Debian linux, and compared to a custom -lowlatency. Identical results on this machine.
[13:37] <zequence> Gonna do some testing with Ubuntu -generic kernel, and compare with -lowlatency
[13:57] <zequence> cyclictest was showing extremely nice results for my -lowlatency, compared to the "generic" Debian kernel, however, in practice, I can use the same latency setting for jack on both and I seem to have the same amount of dropouts
[17:17] <holstein> zequence: that seems good.. seems like what i have been hoping would just trickle into the generic kernel
[17:17] <holstein> i *cant* wait til im through building this house, and can maybe have a minute or 2 to test some things again
[17:19] <zequence> holstein: I need more time to test, and research what the difference is. This is just one machine.
[17:20] <zequence> Need to get a grasp on the new scheduler in use (which I had totally missed)
[17:20] <zequence> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCHED_DEADLINE
[17:20] <holstein> yup.. and i have found that with internal hardware and usb, i seemed to get different results, compared to the firewire device
[17:21] <holstein> and that was 12.10? somewhere around that time...
[17:21] <zequence> No, I think it's since Utopic actually
[17:21] <zequence> Since kernel version 3.14
[17:21] <zequence> Trusty has 3.13
[17:22] <zequence> Utopic 3.16
[17:22] <zequence> 3.16 is the one with firewire support in alsa too
[17:23] <holstein> i mean, for me.. i was getting "similar" performance with the lowlatency and generic last time i tested.. with internal hardware and USB's
[17:23] <holstein> im stoked about alsa firewire as well
[17:23] <zequence> Doing cyclictest on this machine gave me numbers for lowlatency that I've only seen on a realtime kernel
[17:23] <holstein> out of the box firewire audio support!... just in time for firewire to become obselete ;)
[17:24] <zequence> But, it's a little premature to say anything. Besides, jack was not performing any better
[17:24] <zequence> Yeah :D
[17:24] <zequence> cyclictest is a part of rt-tools, a set of tools used for measuring rt kernels
[17:25] <zequence> There has been some talk about this deadline scheduler. Trying to catch up on all of that