Re: a joint letter on low latency and Linux

Jamie Lokier (lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Sat, 1 Jul 2000 01:56:00 +0200


David Schleef wrote:
> How about these?
>
> - Winmodems

Provided latency glitches are rare a winmodem will be fine. What's
more, it can simply adapt its buffer to N times the "typical" latency it
sees.

> - Almost any data acquisition application with a board that
> costs less than USD 1000.

Heh :-) I see latencies from Linux of the order of 5 seconds while
trying to do simple DAQ...

-- Jamie

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