Hi Ben, > You don't use gcc-2.96 or gcc-3.0 for compiling sparc64 kernels. The > package is egcs64. The 2.4.7 Debian kernels should be pretty recent, if > you are still not comfortable compiling them. Linus has not taken the cache flush avoidance patches yet, it could give a noticable difference in this test. However the 2.4.7 debian kernel will still be a better comparison than a 2.2. Anton