do any thread hijacking here but it does seem related. Out of the box it's working very, very well. I've doneabsolutely no configuration of the system. I've not set anythingspecial. Just booted it, started Jack at 128/2 as a user usingrealtime-lsm, and have been streaming ogg files for 4 hours from oneof my 1394a audio drives. In that time I've been browsing the web,doing email and updating the system. I've built a new kernel, copied abunch of files from drive to drive and run a couple of existing Ardoursessions. While all of that was going on I fired up xine and played aDVD movie in the background on my EIDE DVD drive just to create somemore system usage. I've had come when starting and stopping apps. so take it with a grain of salt. harddrives( three 1394a and one 1394b) , PCI-Express 16X ATI. 512MB one day soon as I do seee a small amount of swapping onthis system. (<30KB) I never saw that when running 32-bit. welcome to the 64 bit world.... I am planning on adding at least another gig of ram to my laptop shortly, 'cause linuxsampler is eating me alive. I've already done stuff like get rid of gnome (now running evilwm), and turn off all non-essential services... can't run ardour+rosegarden+linuxsampler w/bosendorfer all at the same time without putting quite a bit on swap, and I get to about 30 voices on LS before it starts to break up.

I started using the cfq scheduler a bit last week. It + the ionice utility *seemed* to improve LS's performance but that may be a placebo effect. thx for testing the latest series of rt kernels. I had got to a stable kernel a month or two back and didn't want to upgrade. :)