Hi, On Friday 12 July 2002 22:18, Bilal Khan wrote: > Hi, > > I am writing some video for linux applications which will > be used in live setting. It's important that no system/kernel > processes start up doing irrelevant maintenence during the > program's execution because this kills the frame rates. > Does anyone know of any stripped down kernels or other > ways in which one can prevent this from happening? I'm not > sure what it is that gets run but on occasion some disk-intensive > system process starts up in the background which lasts 5-10 seconds > and during this time, the video is unwatchable. You could try to lock the application into memory, and give it real-time priority. This should save you a lot of trouble. NB: with all these high-speed disks nowadays it's easy to saturate your PCI bus, so you may never be able to really circumvent these kind of problems. Not on PC hardware, anyways :-( - Nemosoft
