> Oliver Xymoron wrote:
>
> > On an unloaded system, yes, you can be clever with mlock() and pre-fault
> > everything before going into your critical code, but the people who are
> > begging for RT performance for multimedia stuff don't understand that it
> > means running with basically no load and giving up tons of memory and not
> > touching the disk, etc..
>
> Isn't "real time multimedia without touching the disk" an oxymoron?
No. There's quite a bit of multimedia that's not realtime and quite a bit
that doesn't touch the disk. The only part of video playback (or capture)
that generally needs to be realtime is the transfer between frame buffers.
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