Re: sparc32 2.4.21-pre5 kernel debs
On Monday 03 March 2003 22:33, Peter Milleson wrote:
> Hi Rob and everyone,
>
> I was about to give up running the 2.4 kernel on my SS20 with dual
> HyperSparc 150s but I downloaded the 2.4.21-pre5 from your site to try some
> more testing. I can say that I wasn't expecting much success with all my
> past failures so imagine my suprise when not only did it get to booting the
> kernel on the first attempt, but it also passed init with no problems. I've
> rebooted the machine a couple of times and can report only one hang on
> init, which is great!
Same here!
> But one question though, why does it appear that 2.4 is noticably slower
> than 2.2? I've seen this on other sparcs when I tried using the 2.4 kernel,
> but I was wondering does anybody know what is causing this? And why exactly
> does /proc/cpuinfo show the HyperSparcs as 100s and not 150s? I'd like to
> try and configure a test of the difference it takes to start apache with
> 2.4 versus 2.2 and then the next test would to actually test the
> performance of the system
Didn't notice anything yet. But since I'm just using VI on the console I won't
notice if they replace the cpu with a 40 MHz one :-)
If there would be a performance hit, this would be a real shame imho...
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Frank Van Damme
http://www.openstandaarden.be
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