David St-Hilaire wrote:

I'm using the gentoo kernel 2.6.28-gentoo-r1. Vasil, what kernel did you used?

My kernel is linux 2.6.22-16-rt in AMD64 mode.

$ uname -a Linux cassiopea 2.6.22-16-rt #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Mon Nov 24 19:03:10 GMT 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

This kernel is one of the standard prebuild kernels in Ubuntu 7.10 distributive.

Suffix "rt" in kernel name means Real Time, i.e. kernel was build with real-time patch applied.

It seems that this kernel is very stable on my machines (HP Compaq 6710b laptop is one of them) . But some people complied that real-time kernel was unstable on their machines.

Vasil.