I have a sil card on on a MSI KT4 ultra MB, so had to go to gss sources to support it. I was pleasantly surprised at how much better this kernel compared to gentoo-sources when under load. That is, heavy disk IO (512M ram, 1.5G swap at times) or high cpu loads like zipping large (iso sized) files whilst trying to read mail, browse the web etc.
BillK On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 01:03, Stephen Clowater wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On October 2, 2003 09:26 pm, William Kenworthy wrote: > > There is: > In version number only :) Many of the patches in gentoo-sources midigate many > of the issues that are being addressed in later kernel releases. For example, > the hash table collision problem in the .20 kernel was not a problem in > gentoo sources because the grsecurity patch provided sufficent randomization > to midigate, or at least make a collision attack excedingly difficult. > > > This could be your configuration, i am using gentoo sources r7 right now on a > NFS & Samba box moving around about 25 gigs / hour using ATA Hard disks, and > it has had no impact on the squid proxy clients, or the ftp & web users. > Moreover, fluxbox still flys :) > > For the most part gentoo-sources r7 is still just as good as the latest kernel > release. However, there are one or two pices of hardware out there that wont > run on it. > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
