low latency patch for Red Hat 9 kernel

From: Jean Lutrin (jeanlutrin_at_yahoo.fr)
Date: 09/29/03

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    Hi all,

    I am using a Red Hat 9 distro since a few month (and kinda like it).

    I have the "stock" kernel, which is 2.4.20-8 it seems.

    I'd like to install that famous "low latency" kernel patch... but I don't
    know which patch to apply :(

    I read about "test5" and "test6" low latency patch, and really don't
    know what to look for :(

    If I dowload the kernel 2.4.20-20 from Red Hat, will this patch already
    be applied to it ? (how can I check ?)

    Are these low latency patches compatible with the NPTL (Native Posix
    Threads) that Red Hat 9 uses by default (which was not supposed to
    be backported to 2.4 ?) ?

    I like Linux a lot, but I am getting some strange "two to three seconds delay"
    under some conditions... And people having the same problem said it
    disappeared when they applied this low latency patch...

    I know how to recompile a kernel, but I don't know which patch to
    apply to the sources, nor if it compatible with the custom Red Hat 2.4 NPTL
    kernel...

    Thanks in advance for any help,

     Jean

    P.S : please don't reply by private email as this email adress has been
    harvested and my mail gets filled in a few hour by the Microsoft Swen virus
    and so all mail sent to me bounces back to expeditor...

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