[Novalug] 2.6.23 Kernel

Daniel Copeland daniel.l.copeland@gmail.com
Fri Oct 12 14:43:07 EDT 2007


>were getting so compassionate...

Sorry, correction, I meant "passionate".  Yay for my English skills.

On 10/12/07, Daniel Copeland <daniel.l.copeland@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you for your input.  No issues I can tell yet, I just dropped it
> right in my existing desktop machine with no issues at all, save for having
> to recompile my Nvidia driver separately before the GUI would start, but
> that's expected.
> And yes, I have been following those rants for a month or so now, so I
> just wanted to run it for myself for curiosity's sake and to see what people
> were getting so compassionate about.  I will probably keep using it for day
> to day computing if no major problems arise :)
>
>
>  On 10/12/07, Cliff Palmer <cliff@palmercs.com> wrote:
> >
> > Daniel, you will probably find that it is a little faster, but remember
> > that the scheduler is only one part of the O/S, so I would not be
> > attributing all of the difference to that.
> >
> > CFS is a big step forward compared to it's predecessor and I suspect it
> > will get some additional fine-tuning soon.  Once again, unless you are
> > running a compute-intensive workload or have made having the most
> > threads running concurrently of any linux system on the planet your
> > life's passion, you will probably get more improvement out of faster
> > hardware (particularly a video card in the case of window movement),
> > more memory and other general improvements.
> >
> > If you would like to see more of the frenetic flame fests (yes, I did
> > make that up myself *ducks*) look at kerneltrap - including some fresh
> > complaining by the FreeBSD folks who, of course, have had a much better
> > scheduler for quite some time.....
> >
> > Please let me know if you find any issues with CFS.  I and others would
> > like to make it better.
> >
> > Cliff
> >
> > On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 11:49 -0400, Daniel Copeland wrote:
> > > Hey all, just curious for your opinions.  I was wondering what you
> > > guys thought of the new kernel with CFS (I am surprised I see little
> > > to no talk about it on here) and what you think of its performance or
> > > stability vs. the old scheduler.  Yesterday I downloaded the vanilla
> > > kernel from the official archive and compiled on my Ubuntu (Feisty
> > > Fawn) system, as the repositories did not have it yet of course.
> > >
> > > I am not an expert, more of a power user, but I did notice a lot more
> > > "snappiness" in window movement and resizing even with a DVD being
> > > ripped to the harddisk in the background.  I don't know if that was
> > > illusion or suggestion of the mind, as I have no real benchmarking
> > > tools to be able to really test this on my system.
> > > --
> > > Daniel L. Copeland
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