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