On Thursday 18 October 2007 02:25:04 pm nordi wrote: > I built myself a new kernel and surprise: I got A LOT faster! > > Posix 10.0 UTF8 10.3 10.3 (new kernel) > ========== ======== ========== > Dhrystone 336 339 338 > Whetstone 198 204 206 > Execl 658 576 632 > File Copy 1024 535 481 595 > File Copy 256 455 355 458 > File Copy 4096 588 717 827 > Pipe Throughput 468 278 408 > Context Switch 554 384 567 > Process Creat 1000 783 921 > Shell Scripts1 873 344 362 > Shell Scripts8 894 332 349 > System Call 904 334 819 > ------ ------ ------ > Index Score: 569 397 496 > > I have appended my kernel config. It is the standard config minus > everything that I thought could potentially hurt syscall performance (8 > changes all together). Since building a kernel takes quite some time on > my machine I haven't checked exactly which change it was. > > Note that I used UTF-8 again, but Shell Script performance still went up > by 17-18 points. That is a 5% speed increase for a shell script, > simply because of the new kernel! Quite likely other applications will > benefit as well. > > I think Suse should really look into this issue, getting 5% more > performance in your applications is something that everyone would like > to have. But so far, I have gotten no replies to my bug report [1]. Btw, > if you have a Bugzilla account you can add yourself to the CC: list and > get informed about all changes to this bug. > > Regards > nordi > > [1] https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=333739
I did similar here.. I actually installed a vanilla 2.6.23.. and boy.. the shit screamed like a little kiddie in a haunted house on halloween.. I love it.. Ben -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
