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.