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Lee Revell wrote:

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> On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 21:57 -0500, Dana Olson wrote:

>> I am still new to a lot of this stuff, and I searched back a bit

>> through the archives (manually, as I don't know of a search

>> functionality) to see if there was any discussion about it.

>>

>> First question, /proc/sys/vm/swappiness. Is there an advantage to

>> setting this to anything than the default for my distribution, which

>> is 60? I have heard that settings of either 100 or 0 are good for

>> different reasons, but strictly thinking in terms of using my system

>> for music production, what would you recommend?

>>

>> Second question, elevator=cfq. I am thinking that CFQ is not good for

>> music purposes. Would that be correct? I've read it speeds up general

>> desktop usage, but this might work against realtime-preemption,

>> wouldn't it?

>>

>> Third question, ReiserFS vs Ext3 vs XFS vs JFS etc. Is there a

>> filesystem that should or shouldn't be used with realtime-preemption?

>>

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> None of these should matter

>

>> Fourth question, CONFIG_DEBUG_DEADLOCKS. DeMuDi has it enabled, but it

>> gives a warning when you boot up that it could introduce higher

>> latencies. Is it safe to turn off?

>>

>

> Yes, that should be off - it's really bad for Demudi to enable it by

> default.

>

>> I'm sorry if these have been asked before, but I didn't see anything.

>> If you want to just link me, that's fine, I checked on Google and got

>> conflicting results, and not a lot specific to music production.

>>

>> Thanks in advance.

>> Dana

>>

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Dana
Is this the Demudi 1.3.0 release candidate? Could you raise a ticket at

http://demudi.agnula.org/newticket
robin