On Donnerstag, 5. Oktober 2006 09:51 James wrote: > kernel26ck, kernel26beyond. Anything with the CK patchset in it. Cause > staircase is designed to improve interactivity and responsiveness.
If you look at the file /boot/kconfig26 you will recognize that kernel26 uses the CFQ scheduler as default too. > That's what amazed me when I first used CK, no evident slowdown or > reduction in responsiveness under heavy hard disk or network activity. > used to -Syu and know when it finished because the system was back to > normal responsiveness, but under CK, I syu without thinking. The ck- and the beyond-patchset have nice things for the desktop included and both has another value for CONFIG_HZ as kernel26 so to use them for a desktop pc is even a good idea but i can get nearly the same responsiveness with the ARCH Kernel and the CFQ scheduler. So i think even though the ck-patchset looks for me a little better in interactivity and responsiveness the bigger difference was with older versions of kernel26 which has another default scheduler. But you be right that to install both other kernels is even a good idea because you get the possibility to compare the 3 kernels with your favorite combination of applications. At example the kernel26beyond runs on the pc of my girlfriend because she likes it to have a bootsplash (you can see that this has no technical reasons -) ) and on my own i switch even between kernel26 and kernel26ck. The reason for the switch is that if i use qemu after some time kernel26ck swaps and kernel26 not. So i think the result is to enjoy having the choice under arch, compare them together and makes the best out of it for yourself. See you, Attila _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
