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[Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>]

On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 09:55, evraire AT tuwg.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> > I've read how people say that it 2.6.x is faster. Is there something
>
>   I've heard this over and over again, but then some gentoo users
> complained about slower speed than 2.4.x, and it got me worried:
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/66065
>   and
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/66288
>
>   Then again, maybe they don't have as good a linux grimoire guru (or
> whatever their equivalent is :) as we do!  Or is it possible only binary
> distros are seeing the advantages?
>
>   Jonathan Evraire
>   evraire at tuwg.com
>
>
They are comparing apples and oranges.
there is no mention of load, or other appropriate considerations.
One of them uses glxgears as a benchmark but expects the kernel to overcome 
problems in xfree86 and NVIDIA's drivers. GL libraries are also threaded, but 
this user makes no mention of whether they are using NTPTL and the futexes in 
the 2.6 kernel, or just the same old glibc and NVIDIA_standard driver.
It is safe to say that memory management has improved greatly in the 2.6.X 
kernel and as a result GUI responsiveness is increased. 
Any one not finding a performance increase from using a 2.6.X kernel does not 
prove anything except that there setup is different to 99% of 2.6.X kernel 
users who do find it stunning. 
Hamish

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