On 9/30/05, Mike Taht <mike.taht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Probably I should report this in a separate thread. I do not intendto > do any thread hijacking here but it does seem related. > > Yesterday I finally managed to build 2.6.14-rc2-rt7 for my AMD64system. > Out of the box it's working very, very well. I've doneabsolutely no > configuration of the system. I've not set anythingspecial. Just booted it, > started Jack at 128/2 as a user usingrealtime-lsm, and have been streaming > ogg files for 4 hours from oneof my 1394a audio drives. In that time I've > been browsing the web,doing email and updating the system. I've built a new > kernel, copied abunch of files from drive to drive and run a couple of > existing Ardoursessions. While all of that was going on I fired up xine and > played aDVD movie in the background on my EIDE DVD drive just to create > somemore system usage. > > I've not had a single operational xrun in nearly 4 hours. The onlyones > I've had come when starting and stopping apps. > > Everything's working great for me, but this is less than 24 hoursso far > so take it with a grain of salt. > > This is Gentoo, AMD64 3000+, 512MB, 250GB SATA drive, 4 1394 > harddrives( three 1394a and one 1394b) , PCI-Express 16X ATI. > > Note: Executables seem larger on this AMD64 system. I'll needanother > 512MB one day soon as I do seee a small amount of swapping onthis system. > (<30KB) I never saw that when running 32-bit. > > Cheers,Mark > > > > welcome to the 64 bit world.... I am planning on adding at least another gig > of ram to my laptop shortly, 'cause linuxsampler is eating me alive. I've > already done stuff like get rid of gnome (now running evilwm), and turn off > all non-essential services... can't run ardour+rosegarden+linuxsampler > w/bosendorfer all at the same time without putting quite a bit on swap, and > I get to about 30 voices on LS before it starts to break up. I think if you put in another GB LS will just eat that up also. I've tried to get the developers to put some limits on it but I haven't been very successful. (Full disclosure - I'm till using a pretty old version myself. Maybe it's better now...) > > I started using the cfq scheduler a bit last week. It + the ionice utility > *seemed* to improve LS's performance but that may be a placebo effect. > > thx for testing the latest series of rt kernels. I had got to a stable > kernel a month or two back and didn't want to upgrade. :) Don't blame you! This wasn't easy, but hey, I did it! Cheers, Mark from down the hill...
