guenter geiger wrote:
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Josh Steiner wrote:
there are reports the the 2.6.x kernels are significantly (like 40% sometimes) faster than the 2.4.x kernels.
I would really like to know when this "sometimes" happens :)
ok, here you go:
http://www.infoworld.com/infoworld/article/04/01/30/05FElinux_1.html http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/31/1915227&mode=thre...
Surely you can not map the kernel performance to pd performance, if lets say pd spends 1% of its execution time in kernel, 40% improvement would not make pd noticeable faster.
of course not, but many *applications* are getting up to 47% speed
increases... i suspect it has to do with apps that do heavy io access
and have many threads/process... so it may not reflect that much on pd
(until pd is all threaded ;)
I have heard that a 2.6 kernel has better realtime behaviour than an unpatched 2.4 kernel, which may help in some cases to lower latency.
Guenter
yes... everything i ahve heard so far is that the whole system is just much much more responsive. wish i could switch to it (damn you m-audio)