First off take a deap breath here everyone. No need for name calling or anything of that sort here. We are all here for the same reason and on the same side so to speak. You are totally entitled to your opinion and I have no problem with that at all, but calling kernel developers named and what not is a little much.
Now having said that I'll throw out my $.02 here. The first thing I've noticed is that there is quite a difference between the 2.4 kernels depending on what you are using. If you are using the gentoo-sources or the gaming-sources I notice quite significant improvements over vanilla-sources. I believe the gentoo-sources and gaming-sources include the -ck patches among others which boost performance quite a bit. Using gaming sources I do see very similar performance to the 2.6 series in simple benchmarks. Keep in mind the major improvements in 2.6 were not to make your mozilla launch faster. However, using vanilla-sources-2.4.24 versus stock 2.6.2 I see huge improvements in performance and responsiveness on my system. For example I started running some compiles on my system which taxed the system fairly well. Running vanilla-2.4.24 doing anything was pretty painful. Starting up the same compiles under 2.6.2 and then trying to do other things is a whole different story. I couldn't even tell I was running the compile which is nice. So I guess that is where I see major improvement under 2.6.x, that being when the system is under heavy load. Here are a few links for you to check out as well. I know you didn't have some good words to say about Robert Love, but the Linux journal article about I/O schedulers is by him. Try the tests he mentions under a stock 2.4 kernel and then a stock 2.6 kernel and see what you find. I found huge differences all in favor of 2.6. Links: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6931 http://www.infoworld.com/infoworld/article/04/01/30/05FElinux_1.html > > Umm... that is complete bull, I think the list is open for such topics > of discussion. I have not had problems with other kernels say on my > Slackware 9.1 boxes/servers..or other computers that I install certain > distros of Linux on.. ? (And I install quite a few systems each month). > > Other people have already piped in and agreed with me also. > > How can you say it isnt a Gentoo user list issue? > > I am using Gentoo, quite happily.. on 8 systems! > > And if you have followed any of my posts, You would have seen that I > have pointed out exactly what is going wrong, hoping someone who knows > better can post a fix. > > I quote: > > "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." > > /\ that above my friend is complete bull, are you some kid or something? > I am a President of a Linux Users Group and I help people out with Linux > everyday, I contribute to open source and to even try and tell me to > "buy Microsoft" is another complete line of bull also. > > What gives you the right to even say something like that is beyond me. > > I am not looking for someone to "be held accountable" I am looking for > an answer to my problem, of which is "Gentoo" related. The sources I get > are from Gentoo ebuilds. So that makes it a "Gentoo" issue. > > I will gladly post my complaints and rants to the kernel mailing list, > if that is what it takes. > > So what happens next? Are you going to have me banned from the list, > because of my opinions? > > Get off your high horse and get a clue. > > 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
