On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Praedor Tempus wrote: > On Thursday 14 February 2002 01:12 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Has anyone here installed the Pre-emptible kernel patch? > > > > I've been testing it with a Mandrake 8.0 machine with kernel 2.4.17. It > > seems to improve sound and video playback and minimize skipping. Video > [...] > > Is it only available as a patch or has a 2.4.17 kernel come out with it > incorporated? I always seem to run into problems when I've tried to patch in > the past so I'd like to avoid it. > It's only as a patch so far. The 2.4.5 series probably has it incorporatated.
I've been running it for over a week now and have not noticed anything unusual. In some non-scientific testing it seems to reduce the screen "tearing" when quickly moving windows. Also (again non-scientific) it seems to make everything a little more responsive when I have the system fully loaded (playing MP3s, building a kernel, downloading in background).
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