RE: [Linuxsampler-devel] Win32-Integration-Proposal

[Peter R. <pet...@de...>]

Forgive me for going slightly OT, but:
Gigabit ethernet of course has a much higher bandwidth than 100 mbit, but I
once read a post from Matthias Carsten from RME who stated that gigabit puts
a rather high load on the CPU due to increased interrupt handling and (I
think) he said it had a bad effect on the performance of audio cards.

Can anyone comment on this?
TIA,

Peter Roos
Netherlands

-----Original Message-----
From: be...@ga... [mailto:be...@ga...] 
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 12:48
To: Linux-Sampler
Subject: Re: [Linuxsampler-devel] Win32-Integration-Proposal


While 1394 is nice and gives some real time guarantees it has 
the drawback that it's harder to buy long cables, switches build 
large networks etc. I guess such setups are much more expensive.

If you dedicate ethernet to audio it is very reliable and except in
some troublesome cases the packet loss ratio and high latencies are 
basically zero.
Even with a cheap D-Link 8 port switch I achieve the full 100Mbit
and constant 0.1-0.2 msec ping times between two linux boxes.
The poor man's linuxsampler cluster is much more likely to use
ethernet than firewire since it has a lower TCO.
That said firewire will be handy too but for now let's put the main
weight on ethernet.

Indeed, 2004 will become an interesting sampling-year :-)

cheers,
Benno
http://www.linuxsampler.org

Scrive Mark Knecht <mar...@co...>:

> On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 15:17, Christian Schoenebeck wrote:
> > I think a JACK client that implements the network protocol would be a
> better 
> > idea. 
> 
> There is a new Jack client written by Bob Ham for doing Jack over 1394
> also. I haven't had a chance to test it, but with more bandwidth and
> guaranteed delivery times 1394 could offer something here also. It would
> be nice to actually send MIDI requests to LS and be able to return audio
> over the same cable in a very deterministic way.
> 
> Anyway, fun to think about...
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark
> 


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