On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 13:08, iwk wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm just ripping a few CDs' with Grip and even with nice level -20 for > both ripping & encoding the system "drags" noticeably. The kernel low > latency patch should in theory offer a solution by improving on the > resposiveness of the system. But does it in practice? Is it really worth > the fuss of recompiling the stock (debian) kernel which is working fine? > Anyone got any practical experience? I don't have any real numbers from benchmarks or anything to share here, but from personal experience it is worth it. The only time I've seen my computer hiccup enough to stop playing an ogg in XMMS (my own little personal measure of real slowdown :) was while I was installing Oracle. With the install chewing up a little over 2 GB and building a database in the process, this is understandable. But pretty much everything else works without any real problems. Running VMWare slows my down a bit, but not too much. Note that I do have a very recent system with plenty of RAM, however I still had considerable slowdown with some tasks that went away after the low latency patch. And uptime shows me as being up for 62 days so stability isn't really a problem. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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