Re: Which kernel is the best for a small linux system?

[j4K3xBl4sT3r <jakexblaster@gmail.com>]

On 3/13/06, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 01:41:27PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 19:27 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > > # latencies up to 80% slower
> >
> > This is certainly bullshit, it has not been true since 2.6.7 or so.
> >
> > Did not visit the page but that list smells like they are selling
> > something.
>
> The might be issues already fixed in 2.6.15 (he tested the then-current
> 2.6.11.7) or there might be powerpc specific problems, but after a quick
> look at this page it looks like a serious page.
>
> He also posted the complete lmbench results, dmesg's and .config's at
> his page, and from a first view I'd say he has very well documented
> what and how he measured.
>
> > Lee
>
> cu
> Adrian
>
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>

Ye, I just compiled the lastest kernel, 2.6.15.6, it seems a lot
faster than my old one, 2.6.15.4, with the same configuration, and
faster to compile, even I was compiling dietlibc (that incredible got
only 10MB).