[ltp] Re: So what _is_ advantage of 2.6 kernel on a Thinkpad?

[Alexander Gran]

Sorry, but my experiences are completely different.
Some number:
Fujustu dual xeon 3Ghz.
compiletime for linux kernel with 2.4 was 8 minutes, with
2.6 4 minutes.
I suppose you have something configured wrong.

Alex

On Monday 22 March 2004 14:29, Tod Harter wrote:
> I have to agree. Overall the 2.6 kernel is NOT as stable as a good
> 2.4.20+ with whatever patches you need.I've found a lot of problems, and
> they get worse when you turn on preemption. Audio and Video playback,
> despite the theoretical promise of better scheduling and preemption seem
> to be MUCH inferior. I can't even get XMMS to play an mp3 without
> breaking up every time there is the slightest activity on the desktop,
> and thats on a very high-end workstation, on the A20p its worse. Even
> just general compute-intensive stuff like compiling a kernel seems to be
> significantly slower on 2.6, so much for all the vaunted efficiency
> improvements. Maybe in 6 months or so they'll have 2.6 tweaked up to
> where it starts to show some advantages over 2.4, and maybe it already
> will for certain types of loads, but I think I'm going back to 2.4.x
> series on the desktop for a while...
>
> Steve Harris wrote: