[PlanetCCRMA] Easy Question - Keyboard / Mouse

[Bob Wilkinson]

You're probably right - I just have to get over my engineer instinct that feels that if it's worth doing right, it's worth overkilling.

If you had seen me drooling over the quad 940 multicore capable Tyan motherboards, just dreaming - "I'll never see an xrun again," it would make things a little clearer.  Doesn't matter if it's reality or not.




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From: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU>
> On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 20:30 +0000, Bob Wilkinson wrote:
> > You didn't have to say that Fernando - I really don't want to set up this 
> > system twice this quickly, and until you said that you were working on 
> > the 64-bit system I was quite content sticking with FC5 dual processor 
> > for a while.  Now I'm itchy to see these 64 bit processors running at 
> > their full capabilities.
> 
> Don't wait for 64 bits, just install 32 and start/keep making noises!
> 
> My personal feeling is that you won't see much of a difference in
> performance between 32 and 64 os's... others disagree of course. What
> would you measure and how to be able to say "it is faster" or "it is
> slower" with some objective numbers? Subjective comments like "I
> switched to distro xyz running 64 bit and I luvit" are not very useful
> IMHO...
> 
> -- Fernando
> 
> 
> >  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> > From: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU>
> > > On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 14:50 -0500, John Dey wrote:
> > > > Hi Fernando,
> > > > 
> > > > I assume the Athlon x2 is 64 bit.  If so, do you run with the 32 bit 
> > > > operating system with real-time or are you using a stock F5 64 bit OS 
> > > > without real-time scheduling.  If so, how has the performance been?
> > > 
> > > I'm just running 32 bit FC4 at the moment...
> > > 
> > > Working on FC6, and for now including also 64 bit in the mix :-O
> > > 
> > > I'm testing the raw rt kernels that Ingo posted and they seem to boot
> > > fine in both FC6 64 bit dual processor and FC6 32 bit single processor.
> > > I had less luck with my previous attempt using 2.6.18-rt7 on top of an
> > > already patched FC6 kernel (some kernel bug popping up - impossible to
> > > know why, I have not yet posted them to LKML). 
> > > 
> > > -- Fernando
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > > On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 17:46 +0000, Bob Wilkinson wrote:
> > > > >> Well, I'm finally setting up a dual core Athlon X2 box, and one
> > > > >> rather seemingly simple question showed up - would it make more
> > > > >> sense to run with a PS2 keyboard and mouse, or USB?  Does the USB
> > > > >> driver take enough processor that it makes a difference?  Is the
> > > > >> USB option actually more processor efficient than PS2?
> > > > >
> > > > > I have no idea about the relative merits, but I'm using usb
> > > > > keyboards/mice here at ccrma (in Athlon x2 boxes) with no problems...
> > > > > The only gotcha with the motherboards I selected was that you needed to
> > > > > enable usb keyboard/mice support in the BIOS, otherwise grub would not
> > > > > see them.
> > > > >
> > > > > -- Fernando
> > > > >
> > > > >> I guess I always just assumed that it was better to stay with the
> > > > >> "old" technology PS2 keyboards and mice, but I don't have enough
> > > > >> hardware and interrupt background to know that positively.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Either a "Big Bird" simple answer or a college course "101" level
> > > > >> explanation would be fine.  Come to think of it, the college level
> > > > >> "101" answer would actually be kinda nice to know.
> > > > >
> > > > >
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