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Benchmarks Compared For Kernels 2.4.25 and 2.6.4

Posted by timothy on from the cheaper-than-a-chip-upgrade dept.

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."

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  1. Kernel Preempt by MadChicken · · Score: 4, Informative

    Interesting that they turned off the preemptible kernel, in light of what's being said on the kernel lists. I'd like to see this same suite of benchmarks with that feature turned on...

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  2. Apache 1.3? by ttfkam · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Apache 2.0 has a worker module that uses both threads and processes on Linux. 1.3 just preforks. Since one of the big improvements in 2.6 was threading support and since Apache 2.0 can run in either mode anyway, why test 1.3?

    If you want to test something more "stable," why bother testing the 2.6 kernel? After all, the 2.6 kernel is newer than Apache 2.0.

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