On Sun, Oct 01, 2023 at 05:07:48AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > You've a good view of this hw. However swap is not important to run > linuxcnc, in fact its to be avoided because it messes with realtime > response. Linuxcnc needs, even with much of the control offloaded to mesa > and similar smart cards, it still needs to check what the machine is doing > 1000 times a second. The way I'm doing it, the wobble in this timing as 50 > to 80 microseconds, which doesn't bother the machine all that much, the real > time killer is firing up firefox which can lock out the irq response for > hundreds of milliseconds. So I don't carve metal and browse the web at the > same time.
If Firefox is really just for "browsing the web", and is not part of the user interface for the CNC pieces, I don't understand why you run Firefox on this machine at all. I would run the browser on a separate computer, one which isn't so critical to your operation.
