On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 18:20, Craig wrote:
On Monday, Oct 27, 2003, at 17:29 Europe/London, Rob Kendrick wrote:
On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 17:14, Keith Watson wrote:
Anyone on the list using the 2.6 kernel? if so what's the general opinion of it?
I've been using 2.6.0-test9 in a VMware virtual machine for the past few days. It's got Debian Unstable running it it (exactly the same version as running on the host machine, as we have a local mirror). I'm impressed. Mozilla, for example, was quicker at loading, rendering, scrolling and such in the VM than the same version of Mozilla running on the host.
That's the preempt chaps =)
Well, I've been using the kernel pre-empt patch for 2.4 for a while. I'm imagining it's actually the much better scheduling and IO systems that do it most. :)