Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 09 Jun 2004 16:15:04 -0400 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: slow down in 2.6 vs 2.4 |
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Phy Prabab wrote: > Hello! > > Over the last two days I have been struggling with > understanding why 2.6.x kernel is slower than > 2.4.21/23 kernels. I think I have a test case which > demostrates this issue.
Unfortunately this is common. There are a bunch or tunables like swappiness and readahead you can adjust, but if anyone has a handle on why it's really so slow they don't seem to have gotten a patch out.
On features 2.6 wins, on performance 2.4 seems faster in many cases.
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