2.6 final available, any takers?

Gautam Das gautam at ufl.edu
Thu Dec 18 14:00:14 UTC 2003


Do you know if the Cisco Aironet wireless cards are functional with 2.6?
Around 2.5test4 kernel it stopped working. I tried a couple more test
kernels after that and it was still broken. 

On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 08:53, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 13:53, David C. Hart wrote:
> 
> > What are the benefits of running 2.6? I find 2.4.23 runs faster than the
> > NPTL 2.4.22. Our server has an initio card to a SCSI CD. That was always
> > a problem with 2.6 thus far.
> 
> For me, 2.6.0 is better than 2.4 at handling interactive work (i.e.
> preemptible kernel). 2.6.0 has better disk I/O scheduling (in fact, two
> disk schedulers - as and deadline - by default and another one - CFQ -
> which can be added by applying a patch) which translates in faster
> accesses and more throughput. Additionally, enhancements to the VM
> subsystem allows me to run continuously without even touching the swap
> on a 256MB machine, whereas 2.4 swaps in the same conditions.
> 
> And last, but not least, I want to live on the bleeding edge :-)
> 
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