Re: [Emc-users] Using a laptop for testing purposes with linuxcnc

2019-12-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 03 December 2019 13:13:29 Nicklas Karlsson wrote: > > ... With the > > kernel my rpi4 is running, and abusing it badly, the worst case > > latency is nominally 180 microseconds, plenty quick enough to keep > > the card happy. The only time I've seen a stutter is when driving it > >

Re: [Emc-users] Using a laptop for testing purposes with linuxcnc

2019-12-03 Thread Nicklas Karlsson
> ... With the > kernel my rpi4 is running, and abusing it badly, the worst case latency > is nominally 180 microseconds, plenty quick enough to keep the card > happy. The only time I've seen a stutter is when driving it with the > keyboard, there I get a random stop that resembles lifting my

Re: [Emc-users] Using a laptop for testing purposes with linuxcnc

2019-12-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 01 December 2019 14:44:06 Chris Albertson wrote: > In general, notebook computers are optimized for size and battery > life. But Linux based CNC is running in Raspberry Pi and even smaller > and lower performance computers and dong fine.Performance is not > needed. What is needed

Re: [Emc-users] Using a laptop for testing purposes with linuxcnc

2019-12-01 Thread Nicklas Karlsson
> In general, notebook computers are optimized for size and battery life. > But Linux based CNC is running in Raspberry Pi and even smaller and lower > performance computers and dong fine.Performance is not needed. What is > needed is low latency real-time performance. For good real time

Re: [Emc-users] Using a laptop for testing purposes with linuxcnc

2019-12-01 Thread Chris Albertson
In general, notebook computers are optimized for size and battery life. But Linux based CNC is running in Raspberry Pi and even smaller and lower performance computers and dong fine.Performance is not needed. What is needed is low latency real-time performance. On Sun, Dec 1, 2019 at 4:03

Re: [Emc-users] Using a laptop for testing purposes with linuxcnc

2019-12-01 Thread John Dammeyer
> -Original Message- > From: Nicklas Karlsson [mailto:nicklas.karlsso...@gmail.com] > Sent: December-01-19 4:01 AM > To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Using a laptop for testing purposes with linuxcnc > > Checked once and concluded in general Laptops is a

Re: [Emc-users] Using a laptop for testing purposes with linuxcnc

2019-12-01 Thread andy pugh
On Sun, 1 Dec 2019 at 00:50, andrew beck wrote: > I saw that some guys are using laptops with linuxcnc. I only want them for > testing. Just wondering what laptops are good It depends what you want to test. I do a lot of my testing in VMs on my Mac. That's perfectly OK for testing out

Re: [Emc-users] Using a laptop for testing purposes with linuxcnc

2019-12-01 Thread Nicklas Karlsson
Checked once and concluded in general Laptops is a little bit more expensive and have a little bit less perfomance in some combination. Internal expansion ports are also limited. This should come as no suprise unless ordinary computer is similar in size. In general a smaller diameter 2.5 inch

Re: [Emc-users] Using a laptop for testing purposes with linuxcnc

2019-11-30 Thread Sam Sokolik
My current laptop is an msi gs60 (4th gen i7. I have also had good real-time performance from some lenovos. I would have to look at what I have. On Sat, Nov 30, 2019, 8:32 PM andrew beck wrote: > OK I'll have a try. Just out of curiosity. What is your laptop specs? I > have a friend who is

Re: [Emc-users] Using a laptop for testing purposes with linuxcnc

2019-11-30 Thread andrew beck
OK I'll have a try. Just out of curiosity. What is your laptop specs? I have a friend who is a computer tech and I'm have gotten to about 9 computers from him at the moment. So we have some to play with. On Sun, Dec 1, 2019, 2:26 PM Sam Sokolik wrote: > It is the luck of the drawPCI

Re: [Emc-users] Using a laptop for testing purposes with linuxcnc

2019-11-30 Thread Sam Sokolik
It is the luck of the drawPCI will be issue. I use a laptop for testing. I use mesa Ethernet cards and work great with my laptop.. Rt_preempt does seem to work well on laptops. From my experience - turn off as much power saving as possible and turn off hyper threading. Idle=poll in

[Emc-users] Using a laptop for testing purposes with linuxcnc

2019-11-30 Thread andrew beck
Hey guys. I saw that some guys are using laptops with linuxcnc. I only want them for testing. Just wondering what laptops are good and any tricks to set it up. I'm using Mesa pci cards so that might be a problem with a laptop. But any ideas would be appreciated. Regards. Andrew