Re: Help Needed: 4G/4G Kernel Testing

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 09:51:03PM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
> > Dunno about bug numbers but its also about 10% slower on my laptop
> > (PII/266) than non 4G/4G. Thats a well known property so hardly needs
> > a bug number.
> 
> It's somewhat strange that a few weeks ago when 4g/4g was temporarily
> disabled, absolutely *no-one* said "Hey, it got 10% faster!"
> Either no-one tested those kernels, or the slowdowns only affect
> certain workloads. From past mails, iirc your workloads weren't anything
> out of the ordinary, which makes me scratch my head a little.

The slowdown affects interactive workloads not batch ones except network
stuff (zillions of interrupts ?). It could also be that its much less
visible on faster boxes 8)

Either way if nobody notices it then thatsa good argument not to care