On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 04:27:38PM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > Mandrake and debian (monolithic, no modules) used the 2.4.21 kernel, > against 2.4.20 gentoo-sources with preempt etc (it seems gentoo is > behind here?)
To compare performance, you should use similarly configured kernels. Preempt decreases overall performance significantly but also increases interactivity greatly. Things will benchmark slower with it enabled, like you are experiencing. Best Regards, -- Daniel Robbins Chief Architect, Gentoo Linux http://www.gentoo.org
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