On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Dominique Michel <[email protected]> wrote: <SNIP> > Anyway, they need user space tools, that is libcgroup, and it is not in > portage yet. (It is on sunrise, but only ~x86) > > Cgroup is a useful feature for big companies large scale servers, but > for an audio-pro workstation, we just don't need it. > I agree that most audio work doesn't sound like a very good candidate for cgroups, but I've not even tried it yet.
I was curious however about how cgroup might provide a VMWare instance of Windows running an audio app a better chance at fair CPU access? If I load up the Linux side of my server with compute jobs (like emerge -DuN @world) then I find audio in VMWare gets very glitchy. Granted, I don't run emerge when doing any important audio but it's just an example of how something like 'nice' doesn't always do a great job. (A point Linus made in some of the original threads about the subject...) Cheers, Mark
