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Linux Kernel Performance How Will 2.6 Measure Up?

Posted by Hemos on from the time-for-the-blowhards-to-weigh-in dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This story offers some interesting performance comparisons between the latest stable Linux kernels (2.4.x) and the latest development Linux kernels (2.5.x), comparing performance on both a single processor and dual processors. These numbers help validate that the upcoming 2.6 kernel will outperform the current 2.4 kernel, at least in some instances..."

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  1. Data Structures by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Will die! Whitney and I will slay it!

  2. first poooost by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp

  3. What the FUCK is going on?!?!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Looks like Mr. Bush is really hellbent on turning our country into a police state...

    The Bush administration is developing a parallel legal system in which terrorism suspects -- U.S. citizens and noncitizens alike -- may be investigated, jailed, interrogated, tried and punished without legal protections guaranteed by the ordinary system, lawyers inside and outside the government say.

    The elements of this new system are already familiar from President Bush's orders and his aides' policy statements and legal briefs: indefinite military detention for those designated "enemy combatants," liberal use of "material witness" warrants, counterintelligence-style wiretaps and searches led by law enforcement officials and, for noncitizens, trial by military commissions or deportation after strictly closed hearings.

    Only now, however, is it becoming clear how these elements could ultimately interact.

    For example, under authority it already has or is asserting in court cases, the administration, with approval of the special Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, could order a clandestine search of a U.S. citizen's home and, based on the information gathered, secretly declare the citizen an enemy combatant, to be held indefinitely at a U.S. military base. Courts would have very limited authority to second-guess the detention, to the extent that they were aware of it.

    How long until someone criticizing this law is told "If you've done nothing, you've got nothing to hide" and dragged off to a Homeland Security Office's dungeons for a dose of some rubberhose treatment just in case he actually does something to hide.

    1. Re:What the FUCK is going on?!?!? by Jeppe+Salvesen · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Very well. Finally, it is becoming clearer to you that the terrorists are winning all the time. The war on terrorism is having an impact on you, since you are losing rights, freedom and possibly sleep, while the war on terror appears to be rather ineffective. Al Qaeda is still operational, Afghanistan is destabilizing, and the only bad guy you might be able to get is Saddam Hussein.

      Yeh. Real successful. And like all proud men, Bush would rather try harder with the wrong approach, than back off and try something else.

      I would scoff at say "too bad, buddy", except that you really didn't elect your president. He was assigned to you by Supreme Court.

      It's really starting to add up.

      --

      Stop the brainwash

  4. Re:Quick question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There were 12 MHz 486's?

  5. Re:Compile time speedups by Arethan · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Autopackage sounds a lot like my pet project Linstaller. I stopped development a while back to get my CCNE and haven't restarted it since. One problem I ran into was what libraries you could expect to be installed on any given platform. Sure, there's the LSB, but does the LSB specify a base set of packages that make up a desktop or a server?

    My aim was a little different from yours though. I was going for complete binary packaging from beginning to end. No source building, as automated ./configure; make; make install;s tend to make distro specific code. Instead I left the cross distro compiling up to the packager. All I provided was an archive format and a self extracting gui or command line installer that totaled under 50k of overhead. I stopped around the middle of implementing the scripting language backend. I didn't like the way it was going, and as I said earlier, CCNE was calling to me.

    Maybe I should start it back up. It's not like I have much else going on lately. hmm...

  6. Re:Will 2.6 make servers... by Clay+Pigeon+-TPF-VS- · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    How is that off topic? Hes asking about performance under Extreme loads. That is if hes being serious. If hes not then we shall crucify him! I wonder what this will do to my karma...

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    Viral software licensing is not freedom, it is in fact GNU/Socialism.
  7. Re:Quick question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    dumbass. there's no DP AMD boards don't support the 8bit ISA, your MGA is. (and MP2400 isn't out yet).

  8. Same ole same ole for you Americans by BlackTriangle · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's the price you pay to swim in cash, I guess ;)

  9. Re:Quick question by Zoolander · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Are you serious? Read the post again, with your 'funny spectacles' on...

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    Meep.
  10. Re:Compile time speedups by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You're SO not funny..

  11. Re:It's faster. by mr_z_beeblebrox · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    But how is this news? Ever since the thread on Kernel Notes a month or so ago, most of us have known it this.

    Please, don't post "Look how cool and leet I am" and then not even sign your posts. Who mod'd that up to 4

  12. Re:Compile time speedups by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Does your mouse movement and screen refreshing get "frozen" during heavy disk or CD-ROM access? I that problem with RedHat 7.3.

    It turned out that for some reason the DMA and faster ATA features were switched off by the default boot process! All HD and CD-ROM data transfers were done by processor.

    See /etc/sysconfig/hard-drives and switch on the DMA and other options. Alternatively use hdparm to change the parameters manually.