On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 14:50 -0600, Matt Henley wrote: > > On 3/17/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 14:20 -0600, Matt Henley wrote: > > > > > > But what if "fixing" the mainline distro degrades the performance for > > > things other than multimedia? > > > > > > > My experience is that it does not. I'd be interested to see any > > evidence that optimizing a system for multimedia (latency in the 1-2ms > > range) degrades normal desktop use. > > > > Lee > > > > > On my box, I do have an example. If I use the kernel set up for low > latency recording, the kernel modules required for vmware do not > compile. Again, the kernel won't become default. Period. Also, there are separate kernels for server users, so this wouldn't be much different. No sane general-purpose distro will ship a -rt kernel as the only option. But that doesn't mean it won't be an option. Dana
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