Ricardo . said : > But did you tested specifically the 2.6.26-8-rt16 kernel?
yes. > As 2.6.29 is > almost out I don't think it's worth investing time on the 2.6.26 one, but I'm > installing it at the Uni and am hoping it will not crash. yes yes, of course, we are waiting for an rt patch for 2.6.29 now. Vanilla is already working very nicely. a. > 2009/4/2 Aymeric Mansoux <[email protected]> > > Ricardo . said : > > About the kernel thing, in case someone doesn't know this > site: > > > > http://www.osadl.org/ > > Latest-Stable.latest-stable-realtime-linux.0.html > > > > I'm using it and all seems to be working perfectly. > > > > Ricardo > > Thanks Ricardo, > While testing our 2.6.26 rt config (or other flavours), a few users > (LAT mailing list) reported hard lockups. > So we stuck with 2.6.24. > > 2.6.29 seems to be a winner though. > > > > > > > The side effect of this is that we cannot always pick the most recent > > > kernel, for example leek and potato has been release with 2.6.24 and > not > > > 2.6.26 because the latest had really poor RT performances and hard > > > lockups in some cases, so we were waiting for 2.6.29, which has been > > > released recently to work on a new RT kernel for pure:dyne. In the > end, > > > it's also our choice to provide something that will work perfectly for > > > fewer people, instead of something that will work poorly for everyone. > > > And maybe the overall distribution should reflect that as well... > > > > > --- > > [email protected] > > irc.goto10.org #pure:dyne > > --- > [email protected] > irc.goto10.org #pure:dyne > > > --- > [email protected] > irc.goto10.org #pure:dyne --- [email protected] irc.goto10.org #pure:dyne
