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On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 03:11:03PM +0200, Eske Christiansen wrote: |
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> I was building a new cluster of dell optiplexs n-series(P4, 512 Mb |
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> ram, 120Gb disk) to descide on which linux dist to use I ran a som |
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> tests to see which suited my needs (it was a test to see if a std |
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> gentoo install (not many CFLAGS) was better than minimum redhat |
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> install). I was very superised to learn that when running lmbench |
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> gentoo version 1.4rc3 (upto date, march=pentium3) was slower in system |
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> calls than redhat 8.0 and 9.0. infact tcp select was 5 times slower om |
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> gentoo. Does any know what redhat have done to there kernel? Is it a |
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> question on the module ratio in the kernel or du you have any ideers. |
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> I like gentoo but 5 times slower in tcp select must be fixed (if any |
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> can lead me in the right direction I will gladly look at it.). |
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Gentoo does offer the Redhat kernels as well. |
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sys-kernel/redhat-sources |
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Could you possibly benchmark against those? |
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That way you get a cluster with gentoo managability, and the performance |
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you found in the redhat kernels. |
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