Hello, Please excuse me if this is not welcome here, if you know a better location to ask, please tell me. I'm an experienced embedded programmer new to the rt-linux world. My main task will to be to receive a high volume of UDP packets and handle TCP streams with minimum latency and jitter. I am mainly interested in off the shelf kernels and distributions, and so far think RH or SUSE would probably be my best bet. My goal at this point is to determine which distribution and release to start with. Here is what I'm confused about: 1. Just to confirm the RH MRG kernel is not the same as the SUSE realtime kernel? Does RH MRG use the standard linux kernel? 3. If I should to decide to go with SUSE, should I start with SLES 11.2 or, instead use SLES 10 SP2 with the Real time extension (SLERT 10 SP2) ? The current Novell web pages indicate that SUSE 10 SP2 is what to use with the realtime extensions, although I understand a realtime kernel was included in the 11.2 distribution. (This is the source of my confusion) http://www.novell.com/products/realtime/eval.html 4. If I decide to go with RH MRG, is the realtime package available at no cost or low-cost (<200US)? Some RH links indicate the MRG package sets maybe avaialbe via 'yum' at no cost (I have not been able to test this yet): http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_MRG/1.2/html/Realtime_Installation_Guide/sect-Realtime_Installation_Guide-Download-Installing_RT_using_Yum.html 5. Any idea whether RH or SUSE whould have any advantages for high volume bursty UDP traffic while minimizing latency (&jitter) ? Thanks for your feedback, Cameron -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
