Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 15:33:19 +0300
Message-ID: <87smiud180.wl@canopus.ns.zel.ru>
From: Samium Gromoff <deepfire@sic-elvis.zel.ru>
To: Ed Tomlinson <edt@aei.ca>
Cc: Samium Gromoff <deepfire@sic-elvis.zel.ru>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.0 performance problems
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At Tue, 30 Dec 2003 08:55:00 -0500,
Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> 
> On December 30, 2003 06:41 am, Samium Gromoff wrote:
> > Reality sucks.
> >
> > People are ignorant enough to turn blind eye to obvious vm regressions.
> >
> > No developers run 64M boxens anymore...
> 
> No one is turning a blind eye.  Notice Linus has reponded to and is interested in this
> thread.  The vm is not perfect in all cases - in most cases it is faster though...

"in most cases it is faster" is a big lie.

The reality is: on all usual one-way boxes 2.6 goes slower than 2.4 once you start paging.

Ask Roger Luethi. (And yes, i have done tests myself)

One of the worst things i see about it is that people are so terribly misinformed.

> Ed Tomlinson

regards, Samium Gromoff


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