On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 13:02, Mark Tinka wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > The breakdown of what to expect in 2.{5,6} can be found at
> > http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/post-halloween-2.5.txt.
> >
> > Briefly, the major changes include...
> >
> > - New i/o scheduler, which improves desktop performance;
> > - Better scheduler performance under loads (X, make -j5, xmms) with
> > lots of processes;
> > - Rewritten scheduling and threading code, which greatly improves
> > threading performance;
> > - ALSA for sound (Goodbye OSS), and AGP 3 support;
> > - Faster and cleaner framebuffer support;
> > - Faster CD recording that doesn't need ide-scsi;
> > - Upgrades for NFS (v4), NTFS, and HFS+, as well as merges of JFS and
> > XFS;
> > - System-level in-kernel profiling support;
> > - CPU Frequency scaling
> > - IPSec
>
> This should make for some interesting performance on Intel's Itanium 2 and
> Centrino Mobile Processors
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark Tinka - CCNA
> Network Engineer, Africa Online Uganda
>
Yes. Also, (NUMA) servers with multiple processors are better supported.
Check out a more reader-friendly overview at
http://www.kniggit.net/wwol26.html.
