Andrew Straw wrote: > Hi all, > > I haven't done any serious testing in the past couple years, but for > this particular task -- drawing frames using OpenGL without ever > skipping a video update -- it is my impression that as of a few Ubuntu > releases ago (Edgy?) Windows still beat linux. > The problem is that this is the kind of things which is really distribution (because of kernel patch) dependent. > Just now, I have investigated on 2.6.22-14-generic x86_64 as pacakged by > Ubuntu 7.10, and I didn't skip a frame out of 1500 at 60 Hz. That's not > much testing, but it is certainly better performance than I've seen in > the recent past, so I'll certainly be doing some more testing soon. Oh, > how I'd love to never be forced to use Windows again. > You should try the rt kernel: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RealTime/Gutsy. This does make a huge difference.
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