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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. "

4 of 426 comments (clear)

  1. Stolen from SCO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Obviously, this was stolen from SCO. This was based on their UNIX software and was available in the baseline from 10 years ago. It only shows that Linux, once again, is not an innovator, but just copies code from SCO to achive its scalability.

  2. Re:Linux Speed (Or Lack Thereof) by Eastree · · Score: 5, Funny

    >Try going outside. Find out about these things called "women".

    And this would help my computer how?

  3. [ot] by mirko · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thanks but my father is Croatian and my Mom's French :o)
    Anyway, you found out that I indeed am not a native English speaker, hence the neologistications.

    --
    Trolling using another account since 2005.
  4. Re:SCSI by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    An uptime of 0.8 days isn't really that impressive...

    It's obviously been a long time since you used Windows.