On Tue, 14 May 2002 at 11:56, Dean Michael Berris wrote: > is there anyone in the philippines involved in the implementation of > preemptibility in the 2.4.x kernel?
Wow, big scary words. If by "implementation" you mean anyone using it, I have been using it for awhile now on my workstation in the office and it's helped make it more responsive, although I haven't done any serious benchmarks. If by "implementation" you mean actually hacking the kernel via the preempt patches, no, I'm not part of that team. > is anyone currently testing out the 2.5.x kernel with the preemptible > kernel patch? if so, are there any *significant* performance bonuses in > terms of X and the GUI desktops? I use the 2.4 kernel tree. There has been a personally noticeable performance, although as I said, I haven't done any serious benchmarks. There was an article I read awhile back (it was linked to by Slashdot). It was a comparison by this RedHat guy of Ingo's O(1) versus the preempt patches. The short story is it was best when he combined them. KernelTrap.org should have good links, too. --> Jijo -- Federico Sevilla III : <http://jijo.free.net.ph/> Network Administrator : The Leather Collection, Inc. GnuPG Key Fingerprint : 0x93B746BE _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
