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2.4 Kernels Slower Than 2.2 Series on PIII's? [Was Re: VMWare 2.0.4 is out]



>From: Eli Marmor <marmor@netmask.it>
>To: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il
>Subject: Re: VMWare 2.0.4 is out
>Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 15:27:29 +0300
>Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:

<snip>

>The question is important because the difference between 2.4.4 (plus
>the latest AC patches which fix some broken things) and 2.4.3 are
>huge: Not only the above problem (VMware), but also performance
>(dramatically improved implementation of fork(), and zero-copy
>networking), and even security (13 patches which were contributed by
>OpenWall for 2.2.19, and ported to 2.4.4).

Speaking of the performance issue, you might want to take a look at
this article:
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-03-007-20-NW-KN

Cheers,
Yosi
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