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Anticipatory Scheduler in Kernel 2.5+ Benchmarked
gmuslera points to this article at KernelTrap comparing available benchmarks for schedulers available for the 2.5 kernel, with the 2.4's scheduler as a reference poin. "In some cases, the new Anticipatory Scheduler performs several times better than the others, doing a task in a few seconds instead minutes like the others."
They're not using an IIS server are they? Naughty, naughty.
Hey way OT, but what the hell...
I totally agree, but do find it sad that Apple spent all the time and effort only to find that creating an OS was beyond them, so they chucked it all out and went for Unix. And Unix had been there for them all along.
Ah well, a good lesson learned. Now if only somebody could work out how to teach Microsoft a similar one...
"And the meaning of words; when they cease to function; when will it start worrying you?"
Despite what you slashdot monkeys may think (half of you have probably never ran Linux), Linux is incredibly slow when compared to Windows. Windows simply handles multithreading better. Mozilla takes 2x as long to open in linux and if I try to open multiple apps at once, it takes minutes for any of them to come up. And you can tell the I/O is crap just by looking at KDE's performance when compared to Win2k. Windows just flies. Part of this of course is that my version of Linux (Debian) can be recompiled to run on many platforms and everyone can tell you that portability comes at the cost of platform-specific performance. But still the i/o and multithreading in linux sucks. But then again, I didn't pay for it.