Re: Which kernel is the best for a small linux system?

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Thu Mar 16 2006 - 04:16:33 EST


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

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