Re: Newbie question about kernels

From: Marten Kemp (martendespamkemp_at_thisplanet-link.net)
Date: 08/31/05 

Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:17:42 GMT

Peter T. Breuer wrote:

> Marten Kemp <martendespamkemp@thisplanet-link.net> wrote:
>
>>To rephrase the question, is there sufficient
>>additional usefulness between 2.4 and 2.6 to
>>warrant the fairly trivial exercise of installing
>>2.6? Would it be a useful learning experience
>>in its own right?
>
>
> It wuld probably be useful to you to do, depending on how much you do
> yourself (read the CHANGES file in the kernel source), rather than let
> the installer do.
>
> I don't know of any significant functionality change between 2.4 and
> 2.6. The main change between 2.4 and 2.6 is technical - spinlocks became
> finer grained in general, and the block device layer grew per-device
> request queues (and locks). You should find that 2.6 is somewhat faster
> (on SMP processors, I mean) but less stable than 2.4, because of these
> same changes.
>
> Peter

Thanks. I think I'll stick with 2.4 for now. The machines I'm
playing with are dual 333mHz Pentium IIs so the performance
increase might be useful, but, being a newbie, I'm not ready
to deal with less-stable systems. 

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-- Marten Kemp
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