Linux Kernel Benchmarks, 2.6.24-2.6.29

Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @10:30AM from the impressive-span dept.

Ashmash writes "Phoronix has posted benchmarks of the Linux kernel from versions 2.6.24 to 2.6.29. They ran a number of desktop benchmarks from the Phoronix Test Suite on each of the six kernels on an Ubuntu host with an Intel Core 2 processor. The points they make with the new Linux 2.6.29 kernel are 1. there's a regression with 7-Zip compression 2. OpenSSL has improved significantly 3. a regression drastically impacting the SQLite performance has been fixed 4. the OpenMP GraphicsMagick performance is phenomenally better with this new kernel. In all of their other tests, the kernel performance was the roughly the same."

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Cure for my insomnia by fat_mike · 2009-03-24 11:11 · Score: 0, Redundant

1. So I should just stick with gzip or bzip2?
2. It went from 31.47 "signs per second" to 62.77. So the older kernel take one second less than the new one? News!
3. Sorry, this is the part where I started nodding off.
4. zzzzzzzz
Wait, huh! Sorry, other than those four points every graph was within like .00001 signs or seconds or iterations of each other.
Surely it is the year of the linux desktop!
I'd like to see these results compared to a Windows machine.