Speeding up a machine

[Jason D. Clinton]

On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 09:34 -0500, Jeremy Fowler wrote:
> However, I have to correct you on your statement. Preemptable kernel
> configurations are hardly a week step when you consider a twenty fold
> increase in process-level responses in some cases. 
> 
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5600

I don't dispute that the preemptable kernel is valuable -- especially
for cases where you are doing audio or video capture -- but surely we
can agree that the different between a 2ms wake-up latency and a 0.1ms
wake-up latency is not going to be noticed by the end user in the vast
majority of user-space applications?
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