Luca Montecchiani wrote:
> Reading some posting here seem that 2.3.x is much faster than 2.2.xx
^^^^^^^^^^^
"much faster" it concerns the time the program spent in sys. The user time
should be independent from the kernel, as these are calls made in user space.
(Please correct me if I am wrong.)
>
> so I did some test on my small thinkpad ( 486dx4 75mhz 12Mbytes) but
> nothing exciting came out ;)
>
> here the number compiling the same 2.3.13 kernel:
>
> with 2.2.11
>
> real 71m22s
> user 54m10s
> sys 5m41s
>
> with 2.3.13
>
> real 73m41s
> user 53m54s
> sys 4m8s
And as you can see here, the sys time is 20% less then before,
so this IS a large improvement.
Bye
Thomas
>
>
> ciao, luca
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