Hello, > > Maybe I am missing something when configuring 2.6. Is there > > any specific configuration to make the desktop more > > responsive under load? > > > If I had to guess I'd say that the extra patches in gentoo-sources still > provide superior performance under load compared to a vanilla 2.6. However, > that's just a guess; I know the O(1) scheduler is in 2.6 but I don't know > what else gentoo-sources has that might not be in 2.6. > I'm pretty that also the pre-emptive patch is there too. This needs to be enabled from the "General" menu (I think).
I've heard a general impression that the 2.6 kernel isn't as responsive on the desktop. I honestly haven't experienced this--there are times when both the 2.6 and 2.4 kernels have huge latencies. But for the most part I can't really tell the difference. I would expect this to improve in the future though, as the 2.6 kernel is relatively untested (as compared to 2.4) and contains alot of significant changes to scheduling in general. Give it some time to be tweaked and I bet it'll be much better than 2.4 was. Regards, -Mike -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
