On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Collins Richey uttered the following immortal words,

> On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 18:24:12 +0600 (LKT)
> Grendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > ... DVD rips and encoding take long on 2.6 than 2.4 around 26 fps on
> > 2.4 and ~ 16 fps on 2.6. It makes a large difference in time that
> > extra 8fps so when I want to rip a dvd I switch to kernel 2.4.
> > 
> 
> Yeah, but you have to rip a lot of DVDs to gain back the time you lose
> in rebooting. 

not really 25fps would mean 2 hours for a 2 hour video rip. 16 fps would 
mean around 3hours, so I save one hour by booting into 2.4.

> No one is claiming that 2.6 is faster across the board,
> but IBM has demonstrated that SMP performance is up by a factor of 5,
> and lots of users have demonstrated that desktop responsiveness has
> improved, so it's no big deal.

Actually do we have a good benchmarking suite for linux?
A good benchmark would consists of many aspects some I can think of would 
be,

1. time taken to encode a dvd movie to mpeg4 codec.
2. Time taken for lame to encode a mp3 file.
3. Run a 3d bechmark game and see the fps at startup. gears is not good 
what you need is something like quake 3 or neverwinter nights or ut 2003.
4. Kernel compile

This would be a good benchmark for a desktop user and we would be able to 
see how well kernel 2.4 and 2.6 fair.
 
> Personally, I stopped running 2.4 6 months ago and haven't looked back.
> I was even able to get alsa marginally working on my sound card, and it
> didn't in 2.4.

What about OSS?

Grendel.

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