More on topic, does this simply change Wine's priority or does it act on a per-thread level? Most of the issues I've seen have been caused by the audio thread being starved by the others, and is often semi-solved by running Wine at nice 19
The latter. I did try renicing Wine first, but no joy.
BTW, I have to admit that I'm astonished that someone before stated that SCHED_ISO wasn't sufficient for his audio work.
I am too, having seen the definition of SCHED_ISO, nonetheless that's what was reported. I haven't seen any other comments about using SCHED_ISO with audio apps except that one, so it gives me pause for concern.
And even then, SCHED_ISO is a long way off and may never be merged. Waiting for it wouldn't be helping users today, which is a bad thing IMHO.
thanks -mike