On 2/1/06, robin <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Lee Revell wrote: > > 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 > >> > > > > > > > > Dana > > Is this the Demudi 1.3.0 release candidate? Could you raise a ticket at > http://demudi.agnula.org/newticket > > robin > Thanks for the replies. Robin, I actually use Ubuntu, I'm just trying to get it as close to DeMuDi as possible. I just looked at DeMuDi's kernel config so I could compare it to mine. I'm documenting as much as I can and working on tutorials and the like. Dana ubuntustudio.com
