Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752265AbWCPJTS (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Mar 2006 04:19:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752262AbWCPJTR (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Mar 2006 04:19:17 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.de ([213.165.64.20]:56742 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751107AbWCPJTR (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Mar 2006 04:19:17 -0500 X-Authenticated: #14349625 Subject: Re: Which kernel is the best for a small linux system? From: Mike Galbraith To: Lee Revell Cc: gcoady@gmail.com, Jan Engelhardt , Willy Tarreau , Arjan van de Ven , j4K3xBl4sT3r , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <1142499323.10098.14.camel@homer> References: <436c596f0603121640h4f286d53h9f1dd177fd0475a4@mail.gmail.com> <1142237867.3023.8.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1142273212.3023.35.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20060314062144.GC21493@w.ods.org> <20060314222131.GB3166@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <1142482749.8369.12.camel@homer> <1142496748.10098.5.camel@homer> <1142497893.1671.173.camel@mindpipe> <1142499323.10098.14.camel@homer> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:20:44 +0100 Message-Id: <1142500844.10098.26.camel@homer> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1380 Lines: 50 On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 09:55 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 03:31 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 09:12 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > P.S. if you're talking about ssh console slowdown thingie, as I write > > > this I'm ssh'd into my P3/500, and.. > > > > > > [root]:# time w > > > > > real 0m0.033s > > > user 0m0.013s > > > sys 0m0.019s > > > [root]:# > > > > I think you left out the result for 2.4. > > I don't have a 2.4 kernel. But no matter, I don't think it's going to > get much better than .033s. Even if it did, .033s sure doesn't feel > sluggish to me. > > Running ab from the other box is a bit slower since ssh is using the > same net ab is blasting (only net I have).. > > [root]:# time netstat|grep :81|wc -l > 1645 > > real 0m0.259s > user 0m0.133s > sys 0m0.126s > > ...but still not what I'd call a slug. Oops. Wrong kernel. That was one of my twiddled kernels. This is 2.6.15 doing the same ab across the net. [root]:# time netstat|grep :81|wc -l 1592 real 3m7.502s user 0m0.119s sys 0m0.146s Ouch!! -Mike - 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/