I would be curious to know the memory size of the machines whose owners are singing the praises of, or conversely complaining about, 2.6.
All my machines cept 1 are running on at least 512mb of ram ddr400 I think..? (dont usually watch exactly what I buy.. I just ask for the best atm).
I have in my arsenal:
1 Intel 2.6 Dell Inspiron 8500 1 AMD -XP 2500+ 1 AMD -XP 2200+ 1 AMD -XP 1800+ 1 AMD Duron 1600 1 AMD Athlon 800 1 Intel PII 450 1 AMD K6/2 266 1 AMD K6/2 500
the Duron 1600 is the only one with over 512mb of ram (768mb)
I have 3 nforce chipset motherboards,(Asus A7N8X-Deluxe-E x-2 and a LeadTek Winfast)..and of course 2 Intel based mobos, umm.. definatley 1 VIA chipset (Soyo Dragon Ultra) .. and IIRC
1. TYAN S1590S Trinity ATX 1. TYAN S1590S Trinity 100 AT 1. FIC SD11
I do see though that while compiling something.. I.E. I am in the final moments of an emerge -u xfree (currently using 2.6.3-rc2).. on the Dell laptop..
.. that stuff isnt quite as laggy.. but that is in comparison w/ another 2.6.X kernel.. not sure of which one..
My slowest box is the LeadTek WinFast.. (Out of the faster AMD systems) at least the hdparm output is the slowest.. 400 MB/sec compared to 700+ MB/sec on my other systems.
my /usr/src on my Dell laptop is populated with the following different kernels:
linux-2.4.23 linux-2.4.23-pre9 linux-2.4.24 linux-2.6.2 linux-2.6.2_rc3-love1 linux-2.6.3-rc1-mm1 linux-2.6.3-rc2
My AMD CFLAGS in my /etc/make.conf are:
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe"
My Intel CFLAGS in my /etc/make.conf are:
CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=pentium4 -funroll-loops -pipe"
Hope that helps
Thank you
Sincerely,
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