On 12/7/03 5:35 pm, "Daniel Robbins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 04:27:38PM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: >> Mandrake and debian (monolithic, no modules) used the 2.4.21 kernel, >> against 2.4.20 gentoo-sources with preempt etc (it seems gentoo is >> behind here?) > > To compare performance, you should use similarly configured kernels. > Preempt decreases overall performance significantly but also increases > interactivity greatly. Things will benchmark slower with it enabled, > like you are experiencing. I'm sorry - this is really dumb of me to ask: what is "increased interactivity" in this context..? Why might preempt be a Good Thing �, if it decreases performance..? Thanks, Stroller. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
