[gentoo-user] gaming kernel

2007-12-13 Thread James
Hello, I use the gentoo kernel series for my production systems. On my gaming system, I have a 2.6.22-gentoo-r8 kernel that works very well for gaming (bzflag). It an amd64 with 2 gig of ram. I've tried to build a 2.6.23-getnoo-r3 kernel for gaming and it performs very poorly with no other

Re: [gentoo-user] gaming kernel

2007-12-13 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 13. Dezember 2007, James wrote: # CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY is not set betwen 2.6.22 and 2.6.23 the new scheduler was introduced. Most people (like me) have had positive results related to gaming. But maybe bzflag is stupidly coded? Nonetheless you should try 'voluntary'

Re: [gentoo-user] gaming kernel

2007-12-13 Thread Shawn Haggett
CONFIG_HZ_100=y # CONFIG_HZ_250 is not set # CONFIG_HZ_300 is not set # CONFIG_HZ_1000 is not set CONFIG_HZ=100 Smaller numbers here actually mean less clock interrupts per second. This means that the CPU doesn't have to spend as much time switching between processes. However it also means

Re: [gentoo-user] gaming kernel

2007-12-13 Thread Philip Webb
071214 Shawn Haggett wrote: CONFIG_HZ_100=y # CONFIG_HZ_250 is not set # CONFIG_HZ_300 is not set # CONFIG_HZ_1000 is not set CONFIG_HZ=100 Smaller numbers here actually mean less clock interrupts per second. ie the CPU doesn't have to spend as much time switching between processes, but

Re: [gentoo-user] gaming kernel

2007-12-13 Thread Randy Barlow
Philip Webb wrote: I don't play games, but I've long had my desktop box using HZ_1000 it has always been very responsive (now Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.6.23-r3). That's certainly the first thing to try. I use 100 Hz on an old P3 desktop/server. It's not a high traffic server, but it does my

Re: [gentoo-user] gaming kernel

2007-12-13 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 13. Dezember 2007, Philip Webb wrote: 071214 Shawn Haggett wrote: CONFIG_HZ_100=y # CONFIG_HZ_250 is not set # CONFIG_HZ_300 is not set # CONFIG_HZ_1000 is not set CONFIG_HZ=100 Smaller numbers here actually mean less clock interrupts per second. ie the CPU doesn't