On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 09:09, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 17:20, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 23:39, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: [...] > > with single head, agp+dri it is acceptable... but still 1m slower than > > 2.4 (also noticable on the 100% filled sysload applet). > > > > real 5m10.619s > > user 0m1.367s > > sys 0m13.029s > > > > (btw these are 254665 files) > > > > I really wonder what changed from 2.4 to 2.6 to make the same X config 8 > > times slower... w.r.t. terminal speed. > > Did you measure without CONFIG_PREEMPT ? It has bugs that could explain > it
zgrep PREEMPT /proc/config.gz # CONFIG_PREEMPT is not set yes without. Soeren.

