On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > mind you, it made a *big* difference when I went from a stock RH > 2.2.14 kernel to a 2.2.18. CPU usage dropped, and it freed virtual > memory *much* better. I noticed a great increase in performance going from 2.2.12<?> to 2.2.17pre6 or higher. It seems that somewhere around 2.2.15 someone made some fairly important fixes in the time-sharing scheduler, but that's just a guess on my part. Does anyone follow that stuff closely enough to have a fairly authoritative explanation? (I'm talking about thing like BogoMIPS double on the same machine.) -- "To misattribute a quote is unforgivable." --Anonymous