I agree that it's good to leave it off by default but for realtime stuff
(alias low latency applications), it's almost mandatory to turn ON the IRQ
unmasking, since long stalls due to the disk I/O means
no realtime audio and video or whatever.
But again , I do not expect crappy or old hardware doing realtime stuff
reliably.
If the hardware is flawed buy a new one, or use the slow safe mode.
In italian: "non puoi avere la botte piena e la moglie ubriaca"
translated: You can't have both the wife drunken and the wine barrel still
full.
:-)
PS: Andre: funny your E-Mail address :-)
Benno.
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