[mythtv-users] Fedora with Jarod's instructions?

[steve at nexusuk.org]

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:

> that is, it handles allot better, a long compile doesn't steal from X, etc 
> with the 0(1) scheduler, low latency, and preempt patches. Though I have 

Yes, I am very impressed that it lets me recompile things while watching 
live TV with no noticable impact on the TV.

> noticed that the 2.6 test11 kernel I got seems to not do so well, everything 
> was smooth with the standard 2.4.20 gentoo kernel I was using, but the 2.6 
> dev gentoo kernel seemed to let a non interactive task like a compile have a 
> bit too much time, making X stutter and freeze momentarily.

Arjan's 2.6 kernel made TV completely unwatchable for me, even when 
nothing else was running.  Don't really understand why since I thought 2.6 
was supposed to implement the O(1) lowlatency scheduler...

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