Tony Mancill wrote: > >So basically, everything works hardware-wise, although there are some >problems that are preventing me from running box as my primary desktop. >The box is very fast when it can focus on a single task (e.g. MP3 encoding >a 4 minute audio track with lame at 256 bits takes about 15 seconds). But >if you get it busy doing something else, performance drops off badly - in >fact it's far below that of the dual 1GHz PIII system I'm migrating from. > >I'm currently running pure64 w/Debian's 2.6.10 kernel. Does anyone know >if this setup might pay a high penalty for context switches?
That's very odd. I'm using my own locally-compiled 2.6.9 at the moment rather than the Debian kernel, but my system has no problem at all running multiple high-cpu tasks in parallel. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] "C++ ate my sanity" -- Jon Rabone -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
