Re:The Linux kernel's inability to gracefully handle low mem...
by snvzz on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @01:44PM
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Swap has a side effect that's not very nice: It makes memory non-deterministic, as disk is non-deterministic.
Linux does unfortunately have serious issues to do with peaks of latency which make it behave horribly with realtime tasks such as pro audio. It's so bad that it's often perceiveable in desktop usage.
linux-rt does mitigate this considerably, but it's still not very good.
I'm hopeful for genode (with seL4 specifically), haiku, helenos and fuchsia.
Linux does unfortunately have serious issues to do with peaks of latency which make it behave horribly with realtime tasks such as pro audio. It's so bad that it's often perceiveable in desktop usage.
linux-rt does mitigate this considerably, but it's still not very good.
I'm hopeful for genode (with seL4 specifically), haiku, helenos and fuchsia.