Re: Which kernel is the best for a small linux system?

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Thu Mar 16 2006 - 03:08:23 EST


On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 05:19 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 10:32 +1100, Grant Coady wrote:
> >
> > Certainly provides little motivation for testers to provide any
> > feedback does it not? I've had two threads on sluggish terminal
> > here performance without resolution. 2.6 feels sluggish, the test
> > is simple and repeatable, your ridicule does not change that at all.
>
> Hmm. You have a testcase that's both simple _and_ repeatable? Cool.
> What is it?

P.S. if you're talking about ssh console slowdown thingie, as I write
this I'm ssh'd into my P3/500, and..

[root]:# time w
09:07:02 up 2:44, 6 users, load average: 3.74, 4.09, 3.34
USER TTY LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
root tty1 06:23 10:11 0.17s 0.15s -bash
root tty2 08:43 23:34 41.09s 41.05s top d1
root tty3 08:49 22.00s 0.12s 0.10s -bash
root tty4 08:51 3:50 4.05s 3.95s ab -c 50 -n 10000
http://localhost 81
root tty5 09:04 1:12 0.06s 0.05s -bash
root pts/0 08:38 0.00s 0.18s 0.02s w

real 0m0.033s
user 0m0.013s
sys 0m0.019s
[root]:#

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