[Openal] buffer size

[Jason Daly]

Peter Mulholland wrote:
>> On Linux it tends to be quite a bit easier since the usleep()
>> [microsleep] function is available.
>>     
>
> I doubt it's actually microsecond accurate. See my earlier comment
> about kernels - not even RTOS kernels are that accurate.
>
>   

Linux is only as accurate as the kernel is compiled to be.  The default 
HZ on Red Hat Enterprise 4 is 100, which means that usleep(1) and 
usleep(10000) will sleep pretty much the same amount of time.  I've seen 
HZ set as high as 250 before, and some enthusiasts have reported running 
as high as 1000 (approaching millisecond accuracy) with no problems, but 
that's about it.  If you set it too high, you end up with overall 
degraded performance because of the scheduling and context switching 
overhead.

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--"J"

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