On Saturday 01 March 2003 21:35, R Parker wrote: > Hi, > > I'm building a new low latency + preemption patched > machine. I've forgotten how to confirm that the kernel > is running preemptively. It's a command to the effect > of 'cat /proc/something'. Anyone know what I'm > referring to? > Try "cat /proc/sys/kernel/lowlatency" or "echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/lowlatency" to enable it. This is with the warning that I don't know if this enables the kernel pre-emption, or just the low-latency patch. What I'm saying is that there seems to be more than one patch for the 2.4.x kernel and I don't know if this file enables all of them or just one or some. Larry
