Re: Why is 2.4.32 four times faster than 2.6.14.6??

[Willy Tarreau]

On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 12:09:19PM +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 11:54:01AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > > it eats it in high interrupt load.
> > *high* ? he never goes far beyond 1000/s !
> 
> it is 10 times higher on 2.6 than 2.4 (I dont think this can be explained
> by the timer, only.)
> 
> > quite possibly, but I'd rather think it's more precisely related
> > to the ping-pong in the scheduler between grep, cut and ssh.
> 
> Could be, that would also send smaller buffers to tcp...

that's true, and that could explain the higher interrupt rate.

> Gruss
> Bernd

Cheers,
Willy

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