I tried benchmarking this: Hardware: Thinkpad T61, Core 2 Duo T7100, 2 GB RAM Kernel version: trunk Kernel config: i386 686-flavour
I started the system in runlevel 1, ran a clean build of a kernel tree configured as 'allnoconfig', and then timed 5 more clean builds ('make clean && time make -j4'). With cgroups disabled at build time: 135.72user 12.59system 1:16.17elapsed 194%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 119248maxresident)k 135.93user 12.13system 1:15.65elapsed 195%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 119264maxresident)k 135.78user 12.17system 1:15.61elapsed 195%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 119248maxresident)k 135.52user 12.42system 1:16.03elapsed 194%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 119264maxresident)k 135.97user 12.04system 1:15.54elapsed 195%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 119264maxresident)k With cgroups enabled at build time, disabled at init time: 136.11user 12.33system 1:15.82elapsed 195%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 119264maxresident)k 136.01user 12.35system 1:15.93elapsed 195%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 119248maxresident)k 135.66user 12.72system 1:16.09elapsed 195%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 119264maxresident)k 135.54user 12.82system 1:16.34elapsed 194%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 119248maxresident)k 135.95user 12.31system 1:15.93elapsed 195%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 119264maxresident)k System time is about 2% higher on average, but I think the times are variable enough that this may not be statistically significant. Could someone who remembers some statistics tell me how many times I need to repeat this to be able to tell? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
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