[WBEL-users] Kernel 2.6

[Joe Montefinese]

My two cents:
As an Oracle DBA, I can't wait to experience the real difference myself 
(I've managed to really jergle a couple of 2.6 installations)
The greatest advantages are supposed to be for those enterprise class 
types, eh?  RDBMS, webservers, etc.

IBM has a presentation written up at:
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-web26/index.html?ca=dgr-lnxw07KernelCompare
They show a stunning difference of 2.4 vs. 2.6
and that was on RH 7.3


At 08:03 AM 2/11/2004, bill davidsen wrote:
>|
>| > There isn't a whole lot of incentive, though, as many of the nicer 
>features
>| > of 2.6 have been backported by Red Hat into their 2.4 tree.
>|
>| Many, but the "real" 2.6 is still reported to have some substantial
>| performance advantages.  Haven't seen (or tried) benchmarks yet.
>
>It scales well, I have seen some indications that in smaller machines
>it's measurably slower than 2.4. I'm going to post some results to lkml
>late this week, so I won't hash them here.
>
>The built-in IPsec is nice, but I haven't gotten it to work where I need
>it instead of the Cisco, and the encrypted mounts I consider vital for
>laptops and machines on customer sites. No more patching in crypto loops
>and stuff, the code is all in there. No worry about who's reading my
>data.
>
>As long as you don't enable IDE taskfile you data are safe, haven't lost
>any in over a year. And if you burn audio CDs the ability to use DMA
>will really lower the system load.
>--
>bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
>   CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
>Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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