Kernel Comparison: Web Serving On 2.4 And 2.6

Posted by timothy on Tuesday February 10, 2004 @01:51PM 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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Thanks SCO! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-02-10 13:59 · Score: 5, Funny

See, all that Unix code that IBM stole from SCO and inserted into the Linux kernel was worth it!
A marvelous understatement by leifw · 2004-02-10 15:55 · Score: 5, Funny

From the article:
"O(1) scales well..."
No, really?