Op maandag 23-02-2009 om 15:18 uur [tijdzone -0500], schreef Sean McNamara: > * Once upon a time (old releases, e.g. 7.04 and below?) there was the > -lowlatency kernel flavor. This one went all the way and gave us > CONFIG_HZ=1000 and a fully preemptible kernel (not only voluntary, but > forced preemption). I'm not sure of the rationale for discontinuing > this kernel flavor, but it would be silly to say it's only because of > mirror disk space or something; their disk space consumption has gone > way up since then. Maybe have a look at the -rt kernel? :) (There is a fourth kernel too: -virtual, which is optimized for running in a virtual machine, where the number of hardware to support is much lower than in real machines.) -- Jan Claeys
