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[-] death_to_carrots@feddit.org 2 points 5 months ago

Can you alaborate on the sysctl tweaks for low-latency audio? I have a carbon gen4 as well.

[-] runiq@feddit.org 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Sure. The following are the bits that I'm pretty sure are universal. The rest -- mostly configuring my audio interface -- is IMO fairly specific to my system and can be found in my dotfiles.

  • Limits for Pipewire:
    # /etc/security/limits.d/25-pw-rlimits.conf
    @pipewire   - rtprio  95
    @pipewire   - nice    -19
    @pipewire   - memlock 4194304
    
  • Add the realtime group and grant it access to /dev/cpu_dma_latency so Ardour can prevent the system from going into idle:
    # /etc/udev/rules.d/40-realtime-privileges.rules
    KERNEL=="cpu_dma_latency", GROUP="realtime"
    
  • Add threadirqs and preempt=full to the kernel commandline
  • Disable VM swap readahead since Kinoite uses ZRAM anyways:
    # /etc/sysctl.d/50-audio.conf
    vm.page-cluster = 0
    
  • Set IO scheduler to None for SSDs and NVMe:
    # /etc/udev/rules.d/60-block-scheduler.rules
    ACTION=="add|change", SUBSYSTEM=="block", ATTR{queue/rotational}=="0", KERNEL=="nvme?n?", ATTR{queue/scheduler}="none"
    ACTION=="add|change", SUBSYSTEM=="block", ATTR{queue/rotational}=="0", KERNEL=="sd?", ATTR{queue/scheduler}="none"
    

I'm not using a preempt kernel or anything like that; I've only gotten into audio when Pipewire had already hit the scene and I've found it to be good enough with these settings.

this post was submitted on 14 Nov 2025
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