I spent much of today confirming that the -rt fixed worked for me. It did. I did my damnest to kill it: played a flash game while compiling 2.6.25 with web-radio cranking. Performance suffered, stability did not - across hours.
So -rt fixes this for some systems. See my post earlier in this thread at:
...for a newbie-friendly way of making -rt work. MY SYSTEM SPECS:
Acer 3680 lappy, 80gig SATA drive, Intel-based sound, Intel Celeron single-core 1.6gHz CPU with a 533 memory bus, 1.5gigs RAM, Atheros WiFi, Intel945 video.
With .25 compiled with no errors, I'm about to switch to that. Wish me luck. I tuned that kernel to eliminate hardware virtual machine support I don't have, picked my specific CPU, etc. This is a "semi-geeky" process that some people starting out in Linux may choke on, while the -rt thing is very, very safe to at least try and you can jump back away from it with a reboot if it goobers on you.
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I spent much of today confirming that the -rt fixed worked for me. It did. I did my damnest to kill it: played a flash game while compiling 2.6.25 with web-radio cranking. Performance suffered, stability did not - across hours.
So -rt fixes this for some systems. See my post earlier in this thread at:
https:/ /bugs.launchpad .net/ubuntu/ +source/ linux/+ bug/204996/ comments/ 52
...for a newbie-friendly way of making -rt work. MY SYSTEM SPECS:
Acer 3680 lappy, 80gig SATA drive, Intel-based sound, Intel Celeron single-core 1.6gHz CPU with a 533 memory bus, 1.5gigs RAM, Atheros WiFi, Intel945 video.
With .25 compiled with no errors, I'm about to switch to that. Wish me luck. I tuned that kernel to eliminate hardware virtual machine support I don't have, picked my specific CPU, etc. This is a "semi-geeky" process that some people starting out in Linux may choke on, while the -rt thing is very, very safe to at least try and you can jump back away from it with a reboot if it goobers on you.