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michael
on from the make-kpkg-kernel_image dept.
Sivar writes "Andrew Morton of EXT3 fame has posted benchmarks of Linux 2.5.47 prerelease compared with the latest from the current 2.4 series. With some tasks more than tripling in performance, the future looks very promising."
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This was a major reason that 2.5 is, put simply, needed by any and all serious Lunix users.
Based on this image (0202_lab_xp_4.gif), one can see that large volumes of asynchronous I/O is, as the author puts it, the "Achilles' Hell" of Linux.
The Linux kernel itself in all versions 2.5 serializes disk Input/Output with a single spinlock.
(The yellow is the Windows XP box; the green line is the data for the SuSE Linux pee sea)
Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., Canada, B3H 3J5