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From: Folderol <general@musically.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: RT Kernel
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On Fri, 8 Jan 2021 20:40:51 +0000
druck <news@druck.org.uk> wrote:

>On 07/01/2021 17:26, Folderol wrote:
>> Does anyone know if it is reasonably easy to get an RT kernel running on the Pi?
>> I'm using devuan beowulf to get a small footprint install *without* either
>> systemd or pulseaudio.  
>
>This was the second link in a google search for "Raspberry Pi real time 
>extensions"
>
>https://lemariva.com/blog/2019/09/raspberry-pi-4b-preempt-rt-kernel-419y-performance-test
>
>---druck

Thanks for that.
Very interesting indeed.
It seems there is far less difference overall than on Intel/AMD CPUs, and
although latency is considerably improved it's at the cost of overall
performance. For light to medium amounts of audio processing it's not worth the
bother.

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W J G