On Dienstag 20 April 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 04/20/2010 05:41 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > On 20 Apr, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> On Dienstag 20 April 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> has anybody experience with these new sys-kernel/ck-sources? > >>> I could only see they have additional patches (in addition to those > >>> of gentoo-sources). > >>> But I didn't find which patches and why these have only been applied to > >>> ck-sources? > >>> > >>> Thanks for your opinion, > >>> Helmut. > >> > >> if you have more than 2 cores, you shouldn't use them ;) > > > > Why, it's said to scale well up to 16 cores (at least)? > > It's practically *made* for 2 and 4 cores. Single core enhancements > were added later. > > Volker's recommendations is based on his own tests with the patches. > I'm on a dual core Intel E6600 and the patches help a big deal to keep > the GUI responsive and fluid. > > Also note that there's much hate and fanboy-ism around this issue. > Expect people telling you how this is crap, or how the default Linux > scheduler is crap, etc, without them really having a clue what they're > talking about. (I am *not* referring to Volker here, mind you.)
to be honest - whenever I try ck patches I see zero improvements - so I stay with my usual kernel-policy: the less patches the better and scrap them.
