I do a lot of music production on my computer and need every ounce of performance out of it. I use linux on one box I have and I would like to use it on my music production computer when I am not actually doing a recording session, but will I take a performance hit by dual booting? I realize that lilo/grub have little to no impact on performance of the computer. I guess the question is, will have linux on one my hard drives have ANY impact on my windows operating environment. I realize it won't physically, other than less HD space. But what about speed? I commonly a m at 90% utilization of dual atlon mp 1800s and 1 gig of ECC ram. I need all I can get. If this would hurt my performace AT ALL, I can't afford to do it.

--MIKE

There have been some other posts about having Windows and Linux on the same computer, on separate harddrives. If you Linux partition is sandwiched between 2 Windows partitions then you will see performance hits in Windows.

Look around, the post was within the last few days.

Jeremiah

... but otherwise it won't affect performance at all. Another thing - Linux never takes more memory than your system has got (it's called pre-emptive scheduling of pages in and out of memory) hence, you are far less likely to get that "Out of Memory" error so common in Windows.