On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 10:32:47PM -0800, Thomas Zimmerman wrote: > Well, no. But then, I've not had to do anything other then use a 2.4 > kernel to get IDE DMA. But most desktop work is letency based and using > a kernel with the low latency patch and preempt cuts max latency by > about 6 times based on some workloads ( 600ms --> 20ms ).
Most desktop applications spend more time doing waiting for I/O than waiting for CPU. -- - mdz