[ILUG] My venture into 2.6 kernel on an older desktop...

[P at draigBrady.com]

Glen Gray wrote:
> So at the end of last week I decided to give the 2.6.3 kernel a run
> 
> My first reaction was "WOW". The desktop really was more responsive.
> 
> Next I set about testing if it performed any better other than visually.
> I was slightly disappointed with my initial results.

No free lunch :-)

more responsive <=> less throughput.
The default scheduler ticker is now at 1000Hz instead of 100Hz for 2.4
and there are prememptive changes that again will have an
effect on throughput.

They are still tuning things though, so you may want
to try something more experimental like Andrew Morton's
tree or be really bleeding edge and try something below that.
 From a scheduler/vm point of view the hierarchy I think is:

         linus
           |
     andrew morton¹
      /        \
Con Kolivas²  Nick Piggin³

¹ http://www.kernel.org/patchtypes/mm.html
² http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/
³ http://www.kerneltrap.org/~npiggin/

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