On 4/20/06, Hans-Christoph Steiner hans@eds.org wrote:
The preference is a bit odd. The option is "defeat real-time scheduling", so for basic audio work, leave it off.
It's not even 'real-time' because no time slicing is negotiated with the kernel. The code just jacks up the pthread priority for Pd. It's a great way to lock yourself out of the GUI when using GEM.