Hello all This is a follow up on an earlier posting I made today. I tried applying Con Kolivas' patch-2.6.13-8-suse-ck5.bz tonight on my home machine (it is a home made smp xp-2600 athlon box) that's running RC1.
When I tried applying Con Kolivas' patch-2.6.13-8-suse-ck5.bz, I got alot of messages to the effect that a patch had already been applied (not so surprising I guess as I had already done an apt-get dist-upgrade a few days ago and I was running a compiled kernel of the day 20050914161152. As a result: - I decided to redo a apt-get dist-upgrade to get and test today's kernel of the day 20050919180106. - I did just that then I compiled and measured kde, openOffice, Firefox and konqueror startup times: Here are the results: #################### default RC1 #### kernel.20050919180106 startup till desktop ### 59 ############# 65 openOffice ############# 7 ############## 6 Firefox ################ 4 ############## 4 konqueror ############## < 2 ############ < 2 Note : Firefox is the Deer Park Beta 1 version, OpenOffice is the lastest (stock) version 1.9.128 Conclusion: None (I guess I am just spinning my wheels), it does seem clear though that the new SUSE OSS stock kernels are pretty fast out of the box and already well optimized when compared to a version compiled on and for the my machine's own arch. Thanks SUSE. Things are looking good and getting better. Keep up the good work. # my wish list I wish I could get decent usb transfert rates to my usb key for when I load it up before heading off to the office each morning. (current transfert rates are normally around 6-10 k/sec) James --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
