First, i whant to say thanks to the developers of OSS audio apps. I'm having great fun making smal tunes w. my guitars Ardour,Hydrogen,Muse,Zynaddsubfx,LADSPA and more. I have rebuilt these and others for Ubuntu if anyone is interested. My box never goes below 1.0 load when idle when i run my homegrown realtime-preempt kernel. If i run Ubuntu's stock kernel the load is near zero. Ardour and jack perform ok, no xruns with my old (-98) SB Live (10,7msec latency). But the system feels sluggish. I get the same 1+ load when booting with init=/bin/bash too. Details: Distro: Ubuntu Warty 2.6.12-rc4 w. realtime-preempt-2.6.12-rc4-V0.7.47-01 Pam patched w. rlimtits. Compiled from steambaloon source.(0.76-24) Celleron 2.2 and 512 RAM -- Frode Haugsgjerd <froh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Norway