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RE: That was the support you deserved

I don't want to engage in a debate over terminology. Ordinary versions of Windows are not marketed as being a real-time operating system, but they are often used for real time applications. They usually work satisfactorily provided that time constraints are loose enough (e.g. a few milliseconds) and system load is low enough (e.g. less than 15%). Even safety critical real time applications such as air traffic control have run successfully on non-real time operating systems.

All operating systems, including real time operating systems, schedule resources. Real time operating systems typically provide some form of timing guarantees to their processes and may include enforcement mechanisms to keep non-critical processes from depleting resources needed by critical real-time processes.

As to swapping in/out of memory, I think you will find that most users running computer audio on Windows do not run with a swap file, whether or not they have a dedicated computer. The first two "tweaks" are generally to disable the swap file and to disable the anti-virus scanning.


Tony Lauck

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