Benchmarks Compared For Kernels 2.4.25 and 2.6.4

Josh MacLean writes "I noticed a link to an interesting article over at OSNews comparing performance of Linux kernels 2.4.25 and 2.6.4. While the workstation benchmarks are rather mundane, the server benchmarks (including Apache and MySQL) proved to be quite interesting. The rest of the Linux geeks might appreciate this. The comment thread that's linked on the last page is turning out to be relatively amusing as well."

Comments

Nice comparison, same results here

[mnmn]

I compiled and ran the 2.6.4 on an eSeries xServer 235 with 6 10k speed disks on RAID5, 2x HT Xeons (3.02GHz), 3 GB ram... and it crashed. The symbols didnt make much sense either.

Ive been using 2.6.3 and 2.6.4 on two other machines with great results, and running oracle on them now. I've been impressed with newer results, I thought the 2.4 ran the system close to wire speed. I've seen most of the performance difference on my SMP machine (2x Pentium3 550MHz) and filesystem (9GB SCSI 80mbps using XFS), but almost no difference on networking, video and the likes.

I'll still keep using 2.4 for full-production systems, well, partly because UML is not mature (or even available) on 2.6 yet.