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| Newer page: | version 2 | Last edited on Monday, August 23, 2004 2:12:50 pm | by PerryLorier | Revert |
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! Pre-emptive Kernel
This patch improves the pre-emptive properties of the kernel. See KernelPreemption for more notes on what this means. It can be found at a [KernelMirror|http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/preempt-kernel/v2.4/] near you. Most recent patch is for 2.4.21.
I have used this patch on an HP Vectra (233 MHz P2, 32 MB RAM), to fix skipping mp3s when playing via XMMS locally, or XMMS remotely + ESD locally, and running remote X. This is a fairly slow machine by todays standards, and was seeing a lot of interrupt activity - lots of network, sound, and video changes. I would get nasty crackles in the mp3s if i changed virtual desktops and a large screen redraw was needed - the preempt patch fixed this.
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