On Wednesday 06 September 2006 22:40, Folderol was like: > Does having RT kernel have any negative aspects when the computer is > used for general office work? Would it be best to use a different > computer for this (or different partition perhaps) and keep the audio > M/C strictly for audio and nothing else? AFAICT there are no particular disadvantages if you are using the RT options in the mainline kernel. If you have applied Ingo Molnar's patch there are known tradeoffs with stability and network speed, in which case you may be better off using a separate set-up for office work. I'm not sure about the security implications. -- cheers, tim hall http://glastonburymusic.org.uk/tim We are the people We've been waiting for.