Low-jitter kernel benchmark.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTIwNzM

While Phoronix usually miss the point of these configs, these benchmarks still show that low-jitter on the desktop, does not affect desktop performance negatively.

Only if you are running Apache, on a server, you`d want a different config. And then not even X, so this is not related to "desktop".

So this should weigh heavily with any sane desktop-distro maker, for his config.

Ubuntu configgers have no valid argument about throughput anymore, for instance.

Peace Be With You.