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Kernel Comparison: Web Serving On 2.4 And 2.6

Posted by timothy on from the onward-and-upward dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Many improvements have been made in the Linux 2.6 kernel to favor enterprise applications. This article presents results from the IBM Linux Technology Center's Web serving testing efforts, comparing the Linux 2.4 and 2.6 kernels from various aspects. The highlights here are the key enhancements in the 2.6 kernel, the test methodologies, and the results of the tests themselves. Bottom line: the 2.6 kernel is much faster than 2.4 for serving Web pages, with no loss in reliability."

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  1. Thanks SCO! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    See, all that Unix code that IBM stole from SCO and inserted into the Linux kernel was worth it!

  2. Re:The question is.. by pilot1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is not a troll, but a serious answer.
    None.

  3. Why upgrade? by flikx · · Score: 3, Funny

    Aside from a small performance boost, is there really any reason to update perfectly stable systems? My shop has been using a few boxen running RedHat 5.2 for almost seven years now. If everything is stable, why upgrade?

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    1. Re:Why upgrade? by scishop · · Score: 4, Funny

      A "small performance boost"? IT'S FIVE TIMES FASTER! Any smaller and it would be in hyperspace.

  4. A marvelous understatement by leifw · · Score: 5, Funny
    From the article:
    "O(1) scales well..."

    No, really?