Re: [gentoo-amd64] Best Desktop Patchset for kernel

[Jared Lindsay <cinder.sub@gmail.com>]

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Eh? Like to destroy filesystems? Not sure what nitro you're talking about...

On 10/4/05, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/4/05, Hemmann, Volker Armin <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>
> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 05 October 2005 03:37, Jared Lindsay wrote:
> > > I really like nitro-sources. They aren't supported in any official
> way, but
> > > you can find them in the Unsupported Software section on the Gentoo
> Forums.
> > > The current release is 2.6.13.2-nitro1 ("Down with latency"), but I
> would
> > > maybe advise waiting until nitro2 comes out (seppe, the maintainer,
> said it
> > > would hopefully be soon), as it will fix a lagging issue with the ck5
> > > patchset.
> >
> > nitro?
> > aren't that the ones who like to destroy filesystems?
> >
> > btw - lower latency = lower throughput = lower overall performance.
>
> lower latency = lower throughput == YES
>
> lower throughput = lower overall performance == NOT NECESSARILY
>
> It depends on how you measure performance. For me performance means
> that real time audio, such as vocals from a singer, flow through the
> machine without being delayed enough for the singer to hear the delay.
> That's performance since without it the machine is useless.
>
> Granted, I get fewer MIPS, etc., but the machine's performance, as I
> measure it, is higher.
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
>
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