On Thu, 2012-08-09 at 12:46 +0200, Robin Gareus wrote: > On 08/07/2012 10:47 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 13:39 -0700, Ken Restivo wrote: > >> Interesting, well I've already exceeded my time budget for "while I've > >> got this thing on, I wonder if there's a 64-bit kernel for it". > > > > You should build your own kernel-rt. In the end this might be less time > > consuming. On my machine it takes around 90 minutes with an Athlon > > 2.1GHz dual-core, 4GB RAM, CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=2. > > > > The compile time is not even 1% of what it takes. > > Tweaking the config, knowing and learning about the effects of all the > kernel parameters, how they interact and affect the system is a > never-ending task. It is very easy to screw it up, too. > > IMHO it is much wiser to spend the time to contribute to a community effort. > > Sure, you can tweak the kernel to your personal system and preferences > when you roll your own. You can learn a lot by doing that and it can be > fun, too. > > At 64studio we've learned that the actual performance difference > regarding options that are relevant only to one system vs options that > are suitable for a distributions are minimal. Debian continues that > effort. ..and you get updates. > > 2c, > robin Full ACK. For example, I never noticed a difference when I set CONFIG_MK8=y (Opteron/Athlon64/Hammer/K8). Regards, Ralf _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
