[Alsa-user] gentoo-specific optimizations

[krgn <k.g...@gm...>]

hello all,

I run a gentoo system now for a while but just tried out the ccrma
kernels on a different machine. NowI must say that this machine runs
much more comfortably and audio app than my main machine, a 2.8 GHz
Laptop (the  other one is a 1GHz PIII), I refer for example to a song
written in cheesetracker, causing on the gentoo machine much more xruns
than on the other one. 
Now I wanted to ask, which optimizations, apart from the three obvious
ones (ck-patched kernel, realtime-lsm and performance optimized HDD) can
be made. OR would be the general opinion that the ccrma kernels are
probably the best/most convenient way to get a realtime capable system?
Please give share your knowledge/experience on that matter, maybe you
have some recommendations (rtirq.. etc) that have worked well on your
system.
My Laptop is a Toshiba P4 HT, 512MB ram etc.. 

thank you, 

Karsten