Gene Heskett wrote: > FWIW, rtai-3.9 was released today, claims to support up to 2.6.38.8, and > with the bfs scheduler patch too if its compatible with rtai, that is one > sweet kernel. The interactivity between the machine and the user has to be > experienced to be believed it can be that good. The character you are > typing is on screen by the time your finger makes the key hit the bottom of > its stroke. > Well, maybe it is because I don't use software step generation and have no base thread, but most of my LinuxCNC systems are quite responsive, although I do see things slow down a little when the CNC program is running. I attribute this mostly to the 3D preview. And, I do NOT use high-end hardware for CNC, mostly 1 GHz CPUs with 256 - 512 Mb of memory.
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