On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:

David Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

(I've seen a 50% performance hit on 2.4 with just a thousand or two threads compared to 2.6)

Was that 2.4 kernel a vendor kernel with the O(1) scheduler?

no, a kernel.org kernel. the 2.6 kernel is so much faster for this workload that I switched for this app and never looked back. I found that if I had 5000 or so idle tasks 2.4 performcane would drop to about a quarter of 2.6 (with the CPU system time being the limiting factor)


David Lang

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