Package: linux-image-2.6
Severity: wishlist
The differences between desktop and server requirements are great. The kernel
Hz is an excellent example
of this - servers seem to require as few as possible while desktops need as
many as they can get their
hands on. The compromise in the Debian kernel is 250, which leans heavily
towards the server side. Another
example is kernel preemption - this seems to be a bad thing for servers while
more is better for desktops.
Again, the Debian kernel defers to the server(the kernel is completely
unpreemptable). By using separate
kernels, the server flavor can be completely optimized(instead of mostly
optimized) while desktop users
will get a kernel designed with them in mind(say, 1000Hz and totally
preemptable, including the RCUs
once that feature matures a bit; maybe use the ondemand governor by default)
without needing a recompile
(Debian != Gentoo).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26 (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
