[PlanetCCRMA] kernel-rt(PAE) questions

[Stephen Stubbs]

Does using the PAE kernel version on a 1GB memory machine cause a noticeable decrease in peformance?

In particular, when scrolling down through a webpage that has a lot of banners and such with Firefox, I notice a lag that is getting to be painful.

So I removed the PAE kernels and went to the standard kernel in Fedora 11, with the result that somewhere along the line I broke Jack and can't get jackd to come up properly.  (Don't worry about this problem, I'll probably do a reinstall of Fedora 11, install the non-PAE kernel, and leave the PAE kernels on the system.)

Just curious,
Stephen.




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From: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando at ccrma.Stanford.EDU>
To: Martin Tarenskeen <m.tarenskeen at zonnet.nl>
Cc: PlanetCCRMA mailinglist <planetccrma at ccrma.Stanford.EDU>
Sent: Fri, December 4, 2009 12:28:29 PM
Subject: Re: [PlanetCCRMA] kernel-rt(PAE) questions

On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 09:44 +0100, Martin Tarenskeen wrote:
> Hi PlanetCCRMA,
> 
> I have installed planetccrma-core for Fedora 12, but the provided 
> kernel-rtPAE does not run on my Dell D600.
> No problem, I installed the normal kernel-rt version, which works fine.
> I removed the kernel-rtPAE, which I can't use anyway, using "rpm --e 
> --no-deps kernel-rtPAE" on the commandline.
> 
> So far so good.
> 
> But everytime planetccrma-core is updated, it re-installs also the 
> kernel-rtPAE package. No surprise, but is there a way to avoid this ?

Hmmm, I think I will have to rethink the dependencies for
planetccrma-clore, sorry for the problem. You could of course rpm -e
planetccrma-core in the meantime, that will not remove the already
installed packages, and they should upgrade fine with a yum upgrade. 

What is it that did not work when trying out the rtPAE version?

> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Another question:
> While installing or updating the kernel-rt(PAE) package I'm getting these 
> messages:
> 
> W: Possible missing firmware ql8100_fw.bin for module qla2xxx.ko
> W: Possible missing firmware ql2400_fw.bin for module qla2xxx.ko
> W: Possible missing firmware ql2322_fw.bin for module qla2xxx.ko
> W: Possible missing firmware ql2300_fw.bin for module qla2xxx.ko
> W: Possible missing firmware ql2200_fw.bin for module qla2xxx.ko
> W: Possible missing firmware ql2100_fw.bin for module qla2xxx.ko
> W: Possible missing firmware aic94xx-seq.fw for module aic94xx.ko
> 
> Anything to worry about, or should I just ignore these ?

You should just ignore them, I think (unless you have a card that uses
one of those drivers, of course). 

-- Fernando


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