From: "Lee Revell" <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: "Stefan Richter" <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: "Willy Tarreau" <w@1wt.eu>, "Adrian Bunk" <bunk@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4 usage statistics
Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 21:01:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <75b66ecd0805031801s27143437r67ce37b4bc9fdb56@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <481771B8.9070105@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Stefan Richter
<stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> wrote:
> Another reason which I read here and there and don't know how real the
> issue is: 2.6's minimum possible footprint is said to be unable to compete
> with 2.4 for really resource restricted applications.
>
> Could it actually be that 2.4 outnumbers 2.6 in embedded installations?
Possibly. However many embedded applications have real time
constraints so are using 2.6 these days. Both vanilla and -rt patched
2.6 beat the pants off 2.4 in this area.
Lee
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-04 1:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-28 20:24 Willy Tarreau
2008-04-28 20:56 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-28 21:18 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-04-29 19:06 ` Stefan Richter
2008-05-04 1:01 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2008-05-04 8:45 ` Jean Delvare
2008-06-01 23:50 ` Linux 2.4 usage statistics (results) Willy Tarreau
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