As an aside, Ardour does have "native raid" which doesn't have the computational overhead of kernel supported raid. Perhaps it would be useful for systems that have drive related performance issues. I've never used the feature and don't know anything about it. ron --- Malcolm Baldridge <linux-audio@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I actually get very very well latency in the > 2.6.3-rc3 kernel... its the > > only 2.6 kernel i have used so far... and on the > 2.4.23 kernel that is > > patched with low-latency has xrun saying 400+- ms > which is crazy... > > Have you double-checked your hdparm -v settings (if > you're using IDE)? > 400ms is pathological for a 2.4.2x kernel with > lowlat+preemptible kernel. I > never see more than 2ms on my setups with the Con > Kolivas-patched 2.4 > kernel, even with HZ=1000 and 64-bit jiffies. > > =MB= > -- > A focus on Quality. > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/