Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 14:56:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 14:56:04 -0400 Received: from dfw-smtpout2.email.verio.net ([129.250.36.42]:57599 "EHLO dfw-smtpout2.email.verio.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 14:55:58 -0400 Message-ID: <3BC5EB56.21B4EF88@bigfoot.com> Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 11:56:22 -0700 From: Tim Moore Organization: Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.20p10i i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: J Sloan CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Which kernel (Linus or ac)? In-Reply-To: <3BC5E152.3D81631@bigfoot.com> <3BC5E3AF.588D0A55@lexus.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org J Sloan wrote: > > Tim Moore wrote: > > > Any special reason to use 2.4? > > er... scalability, performance, features? Observations based on Roswell 2 and identical Abit BP6's: faster disk I/O and kernel builds (same options), smoother X11 performance (SVGA), higher LAN network I/O (switched LNE100TX) under heavy loads, and, none of the recent latency or VM issues. As for features, I don't need any new feature specific to 2.4. > > I only use 2.2.19p8 and 2.2.20p10 where > > stability is important. > > experimental pre-releases? interesting... I see your point but everything since 2.2.19p2 been stable for my NFS and app server testing needs as well as primary desktop machine. rgds, tim. -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/