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2.4 vs 2.6 Linux Kernel Shootout

Posted by michael on from the bang-bang dept.

FyRE666 writes "Infoworld are currently running an interesting comparison of the 2.4 series kernel against the new 2.6 release on Xeon, Opteron and Itanium CPUs with some surprising benchmark results for common server-related tasks. Basically the new scheduler helps the 2.6 kernel to cream the old 2.4: Samba tests showing up to 73% speed increases, MySQL showing up to 29% and Apache serving dynamic content up to 47% faster!"

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  1. Re:2.6 help!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    you need to install uname version 2.6.

  2. I should refrain from this, but... by rascal1182 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    1) Imagine a beowulf cluster of these...
    2) ????
    3) Profit!

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