[plug] New Toys

[Oliver White]

Gavin Tweedie wrote:
> 
> Oh and forgot to ask....
> 2.3.x or 2.2.x kernel?
> 
> How much better is the SMP in 2.3 than 2.2?

IIRC, they work they've done has brought the main bottleneck (the wait
for resource locks) from 8% of the time to 2%. They managed to measure
this only with a new tool from SGI. Yay SGI.

Of course someone else can give you a much better assesment, no doubt.

Yours cheerfully,

Oliver White