Re: [SLUG] 2.6.2 Kernel

From: Steve (steve@szmidt.org)
Date: Sat Feb 07 2004 - 00:55:12 EST


On Friday 06 February 2004 10:25 pm, Logan Tygart wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 19:54, Steve wrote:
> > On Friday 06 February 2004 06:48 pm, Logan Tygart wrote:
> > > Hello Slugadonia!
> > > Thursday morning, I downloaded and compiled the 2.6.2 kernel
> > > source on my experimental box. My experimental box runs Debian
> > > Sid, Pentium III etc. etc. blah blah.
> > > That said, I was wondering if anyone else is running the shiny
> > > new "stable" kernel. I do not notice much difference,
> > > workstation wise, from the 2.4.24 kernel. Open Office 1.1 still
> > > opens as slow as it did with 2.4.24. I use Gnome 2.4 with Sawfish
> > > and it still runs as smooth as ever, but what appears to me to be
> > > the same speed. The only physical difference I have noticed is
> > > the xscreensaver, "Sphere" runs about 10 times faster than
> > > before.
> > > One good thing, I must note about this switch over, is I haven't
> > > had any Oopses, yet, like I did when I switched from 2.2 to 2.4.
> > > What have you guys seen?
> > >
> > > The Logan
> >
> > Maybe your hard drive is not running at a decent speed. This would
> > make all the difference. Especially loading OO.
> >
> > Run hdparm -tT /dev/hda (or whatever is your drive)
> >
> > My numbers are something like 580MB from cache and shy of 50MB from
> > disk. When I start OO it's up in 7 seconds flat. (They are 133MHz).
>
> Nah, I thought about that too and tweaked it out, my drive is
> screaming. I think it might be my JRE, but I am not worried about it
> as OO runs very fast after it initially starts.
>
> But my question was not about my HD it was about kernel performance.
> =)
>
> The Logan

I understood this. But sometimes people forget things...

-- 
Steve

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