On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 01:11 am, Sid Boyce wrote:
The 2.6 kernel seems to be getting a bad reputation, root of all ills etc., I've been using from 2.6.0-pre kernels onwards on SuSE 9.0 and now 9.1, it's OK and much faster than 2.4.x for many of the reasons detailed in several articles and it will be the reason why many enterprises switch to Linux. I must see if I can find some benchmarks on google. Whatever the cause, it's not likely to be the kernel unless SuSE did something stupid, if they did, I've not noticed a slowdown.
I played with the 2.6 kernel under 9.0 and it seemed faster, quicker to boot and more responsive. Module hassles drove me back to 2.4 but I couldn't wait for the non-experimental release in 9.1. Something might be mis-configured, but so far 9.1 is terrible. Fresh vanilla install P4 2.4 Gig 1 Gig ram, nvidia 440 using nv driver. Applications take forever to launch, it can take Kmail 20 seconds to get to the next mail message the system can lock up solid (mouse can't move cursor) for 5 minutes then come good! I see swapd up high in top and I've got a gig of ram? The normal raft of apps run about 400 Meg: Kmail (I'm sus of that one) Firefox 20 Konsoles (on 10 desktops) xmms a luxury sometimes vmware dangerous Grip fatal Yes it's a lot but 9.0 (and 8.2 and 8.1) did it OK. If I rip some CDs using Grip and encode it with flac I'll be pulling the plug before the 3rd CD. Running System Monitor (SuSE:System:More Programs:Memory Monitor) shows no sign of a memory leak but inexplicable swapping. I see X taking a lot of resources, so I'll try dropping resolution from 24 to 16. 9.1 will get there eventually but right now, it's running with diagnostics on every desktop. Once it's "in the zone" it won't redraw. And I'm watching the trace on System Monitor as if it were a relative on life support. michaelj -- Michael James michael.james@csiro.au System Administrator voice: 02 6246 5040 CSIRO Bioinformatics Facility fax: 02 6246 5166