Re: Linux 2.4.33 on Dell Workstation

On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 00:24:31 -0800, Lancer wrote:

On 26 Gen, 15:11, General Schvantzkoph <schvantzk...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Is there any reason that you are using a 2.4.x kernel and not a 2.6.x
kernel? Your hardware is pretty decent, there is no reason why you
couldn't be running the most recent version of Linux. The fact that you
are interested in compiling your own kernels indicates that you probably
aren't doing this in a corporate environment where you might be wedded to
RHEL3 (which is 2.4 based). The modern distros all use a 2.6.x kernel.
Fedora Core 6 is now running a 2.6.19.x which is the most recent kernel.

I'm using slack 11,and it use as default 2.4.33 linux.
2.6.17 is in extra...

Thanks

If you are going to try and tweak the kernel for best possible performance
I'd start with a 2.6.x kernel. Algorithm improvements are more likely to
matter more than compile switches. Unless the hardware is really pathetic,
which is not the case with your system, the OS doesn't use a big
percentage of the CPU bandwidth. The SMP handler could make a real
difference. I'd suspect that the 2.6. kernels are better than the 2.4
kernels, but I could be wrong. It's entirely possible that the latest SMP
code has been back ported to the 2.4 kernel tree, in which case there
won't be any difference. But as a general rule of thump the 2.6 kernels
will have the latest of everything and the 2.4 kernels won't. So if I were
you I'd install the 2.6.17 kernel from the extras repository and see if
you see any difference (I suspect that you won't). If you then want to
optimize it you can do a make gconfig on it's sources and select the best
setting for your usage. In addition to the Processor Type, you might also
want to make a different choice for the kernel locks and scheduling
algorithms. The kernel can by optimized for desktop usage, where the
quickest interactive response is desirable, or server usage where the
most efficient CPU usage is more important, or somewhere in the middle.
.

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