[OpenAFS-devel] openafs is really faster on linux-2.4. than 2.6

chas williams - CONTRACTOR chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil
Wed, 17 Aug 2005 20:24:06 -0400


In message <4303B70B.9080707@ribosome.natur.cuni.cz>,=?windows-1252?Q?Martin_MOKREJ=8A?= writes:
>2.4.31 kernel (compare with values in my previous posts today, cpu was 0% idle,
>'cs' values were lower but the throughput was also a lot lower, stably at least
>half, often down to 1/5 or even less):

actually, it might be good that the cpu is idle.  this means more cycles
for you!  perhaps the 2.6 kernel is more efficient now and requires
less cycles to get the same work done.  you might try timing how long
configure takes to run.