Re: Motherboard Report: Asus AV8-Deluxe (K8T800Pro)
Tony Mancill wrote:
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>So basically, everything works hardware-wise, although there are some
>problems that are preventing me from running box as my primary desktop.
>The box is very fast when it can focus on a single task (e.g. MP3 encoding
>a 4 minute audio track with lame at 256 bits takes about 15 seconds). But
>if you get it busy doing something else, performance drops off badly - in
>fact it's far below that of the dual 1GHz PIII system I'm migrating from.
>
>I'm currently running pure64 w/Debian's 2.6.10 kernel. Does anyone know
>if this setup might pay a high penalty for context switches?
That's very odd. I'm using my own locally-compiled 2.6.9 at the moment
rather than the Debian kernel, but my system has no problem at all
running multiple high-cpu tasks in parallel.
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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
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