--- Karol Pietrzak
To the original poster:
Ben?
For shits and giggles mostly, try the Robert Love's pre-emptive linux kernel patches from http://www.tech9.net/rml/linux/ .
I love this patch. Starting up large-ish applications like Mozilla does see a time decrease, though not exactly night-and-day. I'd compare this performance increase to something along the lines of going from 2.2.16 to 2.4.1 or so; you can feel it, if not actually measure it. It's supposed to decrease latency for things like real-time audio processing, which I hope translates into an increase for real-time video processing, too (make sense, doesn't it?). Applying this patch for a file, mail, or web server may not be the best idea one ever had, but for a workstation, it's *definitely* worth the few-kay download and the time to run patch. ===== -- -=|JP|=- Hit me! - http://www.xanga.com/cowboydren/ Jon Pennington | Debian 2.3 -o) cowboydren @ yahoo . com | Auto Enthusiast /\\ Kansas City, MO, USA | ICQ UIN 69 67 29 31 _\_V __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find a job, post your resume. http://careers.yahoo.com