Re: [expert] Created rml's preempt patch for Dolphin (9.0)

2002-11-05 Thread Alex Bennee
On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 15:11, Jack Coates wrote: On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 06:32, Alex Bennee wrote: snip Does anyone know if Mandrake are intending to add this patch to their 2.4 kernels at a later date? There are preempt-enabled kernels in testing at Mandrake Club, not sure about MDK's

[expert] Created rml's preempt patch for Dolphin (9.0)

2002-11-04 Thread Alex Bennee
Hi, I was getting annoyed with xmms skipping badly when ever I was doing anything heavy with my machine (kernel compile or copying from CDROM). I suspect heavy I/O load. I've applied Robert Loves preemptable kernel patch to the stock Dolphin (9.0) kernel (2.4.19-16mdk). The only differences

Re: [expert] Created rml's preempt patch for Dolphin (9.0)

2002-11-04 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 06:32, Alex Bennee wrote: snip Does anyone know if Mandrake are intending to add this patch to their 2.4 kernels at a later date? There are preempt-enabled kernels in testing at Mandrake Club, not sure about MDK's intentions but I would expect that they're watching the