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


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