[PlanetCCRMA] fc6/7: new rt kernel; fc6/7: updated libgig

[Tracey Hytry]

Fernando said:

> On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 15:26 -0400, Hector Centeno wrote:
> > Ok, so just to confirm, that 2.6.21-0182.rt19.1.fc7.ccrmart works fine
> > on my desktop but on my laptop it makes Firefox and Tomboy to crash.
> > On the same laptop using 2.6.21-0182.rt17.1.fc7.ccrmart there is no
> > problem.
> Turns out that since rt11 the rt patch includes a new scheduler (the
> CFS, Completely Fair Scheduler, also by Ingo Molnar) and may be causing
> this problem. I posted to lkml and asked Ingo if it is possible to split
> out this added functionality... sigh...

I can get firefox to crash on just about any kernel(FC6).  It's quite easy actually;  I just open a few tabs and especially while a closed one is loading(or sometimes the current one refreshing) I just scroll down the page real fast with the mouse wheel.  It took me a while to see some kind of pattern on it, but it seems that if it crashes, it crashes there.  It's also taken me a bit of time to remember to be careful, which is real silly to be modifying my behavior for a computer program(oh well).

Also, please don't remove the CFS scheduler, it's great!  I don't have any load balancing running with the AMD dual core and from watching the cpu loads in gkrellm, CFS totally outshines the the stock fedora's kernel.  Fernando, if you get a chance, please tell Ingo that I can't wait until CFS gets into the mainline kernel.  (I've been following the kernel scheduling stuff for some time now).

Thanks,
Tracey.