On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 13:53, David C. Hart wrote: > What are the benefits of running 2.6? I find 2.4.23 runs faster than the > NPTL 2.4.22. Our server has an initio card to a SCSI CD. That was always > a problem with 2.6 thus far. For me, 2.6.0 is better than 2.4 at handling interactive work (i.e. preemptible kernel). 2.6.0 has better disk I/O scheduling (in fact, two disk schedulers - as and deadline - by default and another one - CFQ - which can be added by applying a patch) which translates in faster accesses and more throughput. Additionally, enhancements to the VM subsystem allows me to run continuously without even touching the swap on a 256MB machine, whereas 2.4 swaps in the same conditions. And last, but not least, I want to live on the bleeding edge :-)
