Re: linux 2.6

[Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>]

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On Thursday 09 October 2003 18:23, Paulo Pires wrote:
> I've mantained for several months a LPAR with Debian running Oracle and
> JBoss in order to evaluate its performance face to DB2 and WebSphere. I've
> heard about Linux 2.6 would already support S/390 arch without special
> needs for patches and stuff. I'm fascinated with its performance over x86
> and i would like to test it over s/390 ... so what do you say?

Well, the kernel itself works rather well, but setting up network devices
and some other stuff is not as easy as it should be. There are also a few
stability problems under extreme loads and you can expect a higher memory
usage (significantly higher if you use many devices on an LPAR).

I'm very interested in feedback from users, so please report any experience
from running 2.6 on s390. It's also on my long-term list to prepare binary
packages for the kernel, but I won't do it before november.

Note that you should probably use Debian Sarge for running a 2.6 kernel, 
because Woody doesn't have all the packages you need by default.

	Arnd <><
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