> Liquorix is a distro kernel replacement built using the best configuration and kernel sources for desktop, multimedia, and gaming workloads.
Hearing "the best" there really bugs me for some reason.
Hearing "the best" there really bugs me for some reason.
The Linux kernel is buit for all sorts of devices, including embedded, servers, desktops, phones, etc - it's not hard to imagine the default settings being not perfectly optimized for a specific usecase (that said, I have not tried the lqx kernel or looked at benchmarks, but the claim doesn't seem outrageous).
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/optimus#Latin
(But I guess "best" can have a connotation of marketing-speak, while "optimized" can have a connotation of engineering-speak.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calque
It's always fun and satisfying for me to happen upon these. :-)
I will definitely read this.
A big latency spike in latency and your desktop seems to hang, the audio shutters or you see framerate drop (or even freezes) in games.
How do you go after these? You optimize for fairness (which guarantees your workload a fair fraction of the resources) and frequent scheduling (higher frequency / smaller slices).
The downside is that you will trade in maximum throughput.
Looking at the settings I can see that this is what they adjust, but they should clarify what they regard as crucial for such a setup.