No Bernardo,
I get the same or even better latencies. Down to 6 ms with a very complex patch. Alsa is giving me more problems like digital A/D/A sync errors.
As far as I know alsa is using oss anyway. Don't know if I'm wrong here.
Ingo
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Bernardo Barros [mailto:bernardobarros2@gmail.com] Gesendet: Freitag, 18. Februar 2011 17:14 An: Ingo Scherzinger Cc: tim vets; pd-list@iem.at Betreff: Re: [PD] Pd-extended 0.42.5 Lucid - Audio Settings / Delay - not working!
Ingo, I think OSS can offer you just very high latency. You can't get realtime with it. Did you test this "8ms" latency, is that actually waht happens?
I get latencies as low as 5~10 ms with alsa and jack.
Besides, if you configure your system right with ALSA and JACK, you don't need to run PD as root. Don't run programs as root, this is not safe.