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

[Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>]

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