[LAU] Which kernel do you use?

[Jeff Sandys]

> From: Hermann Meyer <brummer- at web.de>
> To: linux-audio-user <linux-audio-user at lists.linuxaudio.org>
> Subject: [LAU] Which kernel do you use?
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> I've get a new (used) mobo, and played with the kernel version to use.
> So far I've tested all from 3.19.0-rc5 down to 3.4.104
>
> Those, were rt-patches available I test as rt-kernel.
> Best results, I only get with the 3.4 series, all later kernels
> introduce Xruns here, sporadic, unrelated to the dsp load, even, when
> just jack is running.
> I build then all with the same configuration, play a bit with
> configurations deselect hyper-threading on the latest kernels, use
> threadedirqs,  all to no avail. Only 3.4.xxx-rt kernel run absolute smooth.
> So, which kernels with witch configuration do you all use?
> <snip>
> Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GT216 [GeForce GT 220]
>             bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0a20
>             Display Server: X.Org 1.16.1.901 drivers: nouveau (unloaded:
> fbdev,vesa)
>

I see you are using the nouveau driver for NVIDIA.  Other RT users with
NVIDIA have commented on performance issues with nouveau and had better
performance with the NVIDIA akmods.

-- Jeff
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