le jeu 13-12-2001 � 15:40, Thierry Vignaud a �crit : > I've tested it and never saw any boost. i've read other people reporting no > speedups.
it's not a speedup pb, it responsivity. For example this urpmi install many package and my system become so less responsive due to heavy disk I/O. A premmpt kernel offer more responsivity and in an environment slow as KDE, more responsitivity is a big plus. what I'd liked with linux was the fact that while using my printer/floppy/zip //, I could still doing others things normally ( contrary to win9x ). Now I'd like to be able to have a system more responsive when urpmi install rpm or when eroaster convert mp3 to wav or when I'm compiling my kernel or when I'm encoding something. Mandrake could give it a try. I'm sure that cooker uisers will be pleased to test this kernel. Of course don't patch secure/enterprise kernel ( throughput decrease because of the fact that blocking call are ... ) -- http://perso.wanadoo.fr/linux_wizard/index.html - Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? -- Clarence Darrow
