On Sunday 14 April 2002 03:00 pm, Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote: > On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 02:35:13PM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: > > Raw performance seems to be increased as well, due to an improved kernel > > (2.4.18 plus low-latency and preemptible patches, according to the kernel > > source RPM).
> The low-latency and preemptible patches are not meant for performance > gains, but for responsiveness, and are not designed to be used in servers, > only in workstations/desktops. ISTM that improving interactive performance would also improve multiuser performance in a server, as low latency and kernel preemption can increase multiuser server responsiveness. > > Although I am a little overwhelmed by the increased performance > > of this new Athlon 1.2+512MB RAM versus my old Celeron 650+192MB RAM, > > 7.2.93 seems to be faster on the same hardware. > 2.4.18 does come with a improved VM, what could justify the performance > increase. As could an update on the compiler (I've being using gcc 3.1 in > my redhat 7.2). The stock gcc on 7.2.93 is still the RedHat-branded 2.96, but with lots of fixes backported from higher versions. However, the improved VM may indeed be a large part of it. It sure feels faster. > But I can't recomend the beta to anyone, we had problems with one > dual pentium iii server, causing random corruption on > /usr/include/*.h and a lock up. Did you happen to report it to Red Hat's Skipjack list, or to bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla? Helps make a better dist! I have had less problems thus far with 7.2.93 than I ever did with 7.2. -- Lamar Owen WGCR Internet Radio 1 Peter 4:11 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
