On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 21:57 -0500, Dana Olson wrote: > I am still new to a lot of this stuff, and I searched back a bit > through the archives (manually, as I don't know of a search > functionality) to see if there was any discussion about it. > > First question, /proc/sys/vm/swappiness. Is there an advantage to > setting this to anything than the default for my distribution, which > is 60? I have heard that settings of either 100 or 0 are good for > different reasons, but strictly thinking in terms of using my system > for music production, what would you recommend? > > Second question, elevator=cfq. I am thinking that CFQ is not good for > music purposes. Would that be correct? I've read it speeds up general > desktop usage, but this might work against realtime-preemption, > wouldn't it? > > Third question, ReiserFS vs Ext3 vs XFS vs JFS etc. Is there a > filesystem that should or shouldn't be used with realtime-preemption? > None of these should matter > Fourth question, CONFIG_DEBUG_DEADLOCKS. DeMuDi has it enabled, but it > gives a warning when you boot up that it could introduce higher > latencies. Is it safe to turn off? > Yes, that should be off - it's really bad for Demudi to enable it by default. > I'm sorry if these have been asked before, but I didn't see anything. > If you want to just link me, that's fine, I checked on Google and got > conflicting results, and not a lot specific to music production. > > Thanks in advance. > Dana >
