Improving Linux Kernel Performance

Posted by michael on Friday January 17, 2003 @09:39PM from the higher-faster-stronger dept.

developerWorks writes "The first step in improving Linux performance is quantifying it, but how exactly do you quantify performance for Linux or for comparable systems? In this article, members of the IBM Linux Technology Center share their expertise as they describe how they ran several benchmark tests on the Linux 2.4 and 2.5 kernels late last year. The benchmarks provide coverage for a diverse set of workloads, including Web serving, database, and file serving. In addition, we show the various components of the kernel (disk I/O subsystem, for example) that are stressed by each benchmark."

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But how many 3dmarks can I get?? by Rooked_One · 2003-01-17 21:47 · Score: 2, Funny

oh wait, thats not ported to nix yet....
Re:Can Linux become Mozilla? by jas79 · 2003-01-18 00:31 · Score: 2, Funny

If we were using the HURD, the kernel would be 900 megs by now... (and Emacs would be a kernel module)

Since when is having a choice from 900 megs of kernelmodules bad?