I basicly agree with you, I didn't expect 2.6 to skyrocket at first, but
lately, its speed has been bragged about on this and other lists, so it
was a disappointment to see about everything slightly slower, but
desktop response down a lot...

I was just wondering if I missed a step in the process that explains the
difference in my experience to that of other users.


On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 03:18, Ian Truelsen wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 19:05:09 -0600
> TriKster Abacus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > This just goes to prove that I am not the only one seeing this
> > bullsh*ty "ooohooohoooohhh ... 2.6.X is so great!" crap
> > 
> Excuse me for interrupting, but does it make a lot of sense to be
> benchmarking what is essentially a development kernel? I would think
> that when they are in the single digits in releases, they are simply
> trying to make sure that everything works. Once the 2.6 tree has been
> around for a while they will work on speed tweaks. 
> 
> For the record, I have seen a slight downgrade in X performance with
> 2.6, but not much of one. However, I am not running 2.6 for speed, but
> to help in the development in whatever small way that I can. 
> 
> I am giving them a good 10 releases before I expect to see the same or
> better performance.
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