I don't want to feed this but what it really comes down to is if your not happy use the 2.4 kernels or make friendly constructive comments on the Kernel mailing lists where a developer who has given many many hours to bring you this nice new kernel can answer and maybe resolve your issues. Remember all this is free and comes from the love and time of a select few people who have the knowledge and time to do something like this.
Ranting and raving on a Gentoo user list is going to get you nowhere. If you want someone to be held accountable for a product buy closed source, buy Microsoft where you are guaranteed to get the same every time and have some one to have a go at. Open source is about choice. If you don't like one choice make another. Maybe go to a BSD instead of Linux if it doesn't rock your boat properly. Cheers Simon -----Original Message----- From: TriKster Abacus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 13 February 2004 14:19 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] perfomance 2.6.3 <= 2.4 B.S.!!!!! >>From what I have read, the major performance gains are for MP machines. > Check the recent IBM benchmarks that report a 5-1 gain in web pages > served for a 24 hour test on an 8-processor machine! > > http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-web26/index.html?c a=dgr-lnxw02KernCompare Ya, but the issue here is.. a desktop system, running basic programs.. I.E. X, xchat-2, mozilla, [your favorite email client here], fluxbox, kde < whatever.. and a few Eterms/xterms There is not any noticeable improvement on speeds. See here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=116183 And I QUOTE: "Lovechild wrote: Love-sources was mainly meant to get a good 2.6 kernel for the desktop. we ship runtime selectable IO schedulers, the Nick Piggin Scheduler Policy patch and a few other goodies - it's based on the -mm kernel so it has all the goodies Andrew is shipping as well as any patches flowing around on lkml right after an -mm release to handle compile problems, etc." So c'mon.. we are all tired of this bull crap.. let us see some hard evidence that these kernels, esp. the 2.6.X series.. PERIOD are any better than a 2.4.X kernel!!!! A few of us have solid proof that the 2.6.X kernels actually are very, very much poorer in performance than the 2.4.X kernels!! Our hdparm, glxgears and other things to test speed improvements are all very bad. And please dont ask me for my outputs.. I spent quite awhile on this message: Re: [gentoo-user] bulloney 2.6.X benchmarks (more!) posted on 02/12/04 @ 13:09 CST - USA Thank you Sincerely, -- TriKster Abacus irc.freenode.net #cllug #gentoo #linuxfriends irc.cotse.com #linux http://www.cllug.org http://www.trikster.homelinux.org http://www.trikster.homelinux.org/contact.html -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
