AMD 450Mhz 2.6 kernel performance gain?

[Avery]

Christopher,

Thanks for the info. That's darn impressive. How much daily traffic do you get?

I am hoping kernel 2.6 will help to ease the load apache creates. This is my main concern. Squirrelmail is hard my
server.


Christopher Chan said:
> Avery wrote:
>> I have seen a lot of benchmarks between the 2.4 and 2.6 kernels for high end systems but
>> I have yet to find one that does a comparison for low end systems. I am running a older
>> AMD (450Mhz, 512 ram) system for a HTTP and EMAIL server. Anyone have any thoughts or
>> predictions on performance gains or losses if I update my system to a 2.6 kernel (Fedora
>> core 2)? What do you think is it worth it?
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> Doubled mail transactions just by switching to 2.6 on dual PIII 800.
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Avery