If you are sitting on your hands waiting for a good reason to
upgrade to a 2.6 kernel, I would like to offer the following:
- Using the premptabale kernel makes your system NOTICABLY
more responsive. My system is a 2 way 2.4ghz xeon and it used to halt
and stutter under heavy load... no more. There is a new scheduler and
it may account for some of this new fluidity.
- The new threading model vastly reduces the number of pseudo
processes running in your system for multithreaded apps (java in
particular) and makes the memory allocation in the system monitor more
sensible (I don't really have 50G!).
- Large multighreaded java apps (Netbeans and Eclipse) no
longer hang because of the thread allocation bug.
- If you pay particular attention to selecting the correct
driver for your IDE controller's chipset your IDE drives will perform
better. This was the case with the 2.4 kernel, but I hadn't "noticed"
it. Don't use the generic driver if there is a specific one there for
your controller.
If you are intimidated at the prospect of having to compile your
own kernel... get Fedora core 2 and upgrade. I haven't done this but I
will soon!
wcn
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