Spent a large part of yesterday compiling kernels, and timimg the loading of a large spreadsheet using gnumeric - and fixing a corrupt boot sector, but thats another story.
Upshot was using gentoo sources with pre-empt and low latency on caused only a few seconds difference in load time against the same kernel with these features off. In fact, with such a fine margin ( <10 secs across ~6m30s) it may be random. An openmosix kernel (thread export off) actually took a full minute longer than gentoo-sources! Will be trying vanilla-sources soon, but has anyone done any tests on what kernel is best for speed, and what options/patches make a difference. Too many variables ... BillK ** Hardware was athlon t-bird, 1g ram in this case -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
