[PlanetCCRMA] 2.6.12-0.18.rdt.rhfc3.ccrma kernel doing ok

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 17:57, Tracey Hytry wrote:
> Fernando,
>
> We installed your newest kernel on both of our personal machines here 
> and so far things are looking good.
> 
> We ran a few tests on them with the new kernel compared to the  
> 2.6.11-0.15.rdt and got slightly better audio stabilty with 
> 2.6.12-0.18.rdt.  This is actually quite good considering that 
> 2.6.12-0.15.rdt is light years ahead of the  2.6.10-2.1.ll.

Thanks for the encouraging feedback. It is good to know that things are
working out. I would not imagine that at this point we would get much
better latency performance from these kernels (I'd of course love to be
proven wrong) unless I change the configuration options that I'm using
when I build them (from PREEMPT_DESKTOP to PREEMPT_RT). I have not done
any tests with PREEMPT_RT in a long time, maybe it is time to fire one
up and see what happens...

> Please pass on the thanks for the good work on the kernel development.

I'll send this to Ingo, I'm sure he'll be happy to know of satisfied
users...

> Once again I'll have to say that these kernels rock compared to the 
> stock 2.6.x.  The boot time to desktop is faster, the desktop itself 
> is snappier, and the ability to do real multimedia is there.
> 
> "One machine is an athlon64 with a gig of memory and a sata drive, 
> while the other is an athlon32 with 1.5 gig memory and ide drives.  
> Both are running all of the fc3 planet stuff.  Both are also using 
> the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7167 kernal drivers which were installed 
> on the new kernels using the --kernel-module-only switch."

And, of course, once you install one you have another :-)

2.6.12-0.21.rdt is out now in the PlanetEdge repository (including
realtime preempt 0.7.51-27), with some fixes that Ingo believes will
prevent some lock-up conditions. Probably not worth upgrading right away
unless your machine locks up sometimes :-)

-- Fernando