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The New Linux Speed Trick

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the benchmarking-the-beast dept.

Brainsur quotes a story saying " Linux kernel 2.6 introduces improved IO scheduling that can increase speed -- "sometimes by 1,000 percent or more, [more] often by 2x" -- for standard desktop workloads, and by as much as 15 percent on many database workloads, according to Andrew Morton of Open Source Development Labs. This increased speed is accomplished by minimizing the disk head movement during concurrent reads. "

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  1. I can increase my Linux GUI 10,000 times by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    by switching from Gnome to KDE.

  2. Re:I kill Iraqi children for protection.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    because they would only have become future terrorist.

  3. Re:Our take on it from inside MSFT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    really???

    why is it that windows XP professional, your flagship.. is much slower than a linux install that is comperable like Mandrake 10.0 with an older 2.6 kernel??

    benchmarking proves it also.. XP is doing some really hokey things.....

    and I wont even get into the inability to be really multiuiser/multitasking and the gigantic security holes you guys think has to be there for the sake of "useability"...

    sorry, but nothing in XP is impressive... it is nothing more than windows 2000 core with different clothes and exra bling bling.

  4. Re:You're misunderstanding something... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Does that mean that transactional systems (that must block on writes) are gonna perform worse on the new kernel?

    Cool. Tune the OS for the eye candy and to hell with the server side.

    BSD^H^H^HLinux is dead.