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From: Otto Solares <solca@guug•org>
To: Dan Malek <dan@embeddedalley•com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: 2.4.x vs 2.6.x performance
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 12:41:38 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060125184138.GA12874@guug.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c8c05211d33576b79dee80725822322b@embeddedalley.com>

On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 07:45:38AM -0800, Dan Malek wrote:
> I wouldn't say "considerably" slower, but there are some
> performance differences.  It's most evident on the
> smaller, slower processors, like the 8xx, but we have
> taken steps to alleviate that.  The problem is 2.6 is just
> bigger with more stuff in it.  You want the new features,
> you have to pay for that somewhere.  I think it would
> help if the kernel was a little more configurable for
> embedded systems.  It seems there is just too much
> stuff in a basic kernel that I wish could be stripped out.

Many things can be stripped out with LinuxTiny patches:

http://www.selenic.com/linux-tiny/

-otto

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-01-25 19:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-23  4:24 2.4.x vs 2.6.x performance Frank
2006-01-25 15:45 ` Dan Malek
2006-01-25 15:55   ` Frank
2006-01-25 18:41   ` Otto Solares [this message]
2006-01-25 20:14 ` Carlos Munoz
2006-01-25 23:46   ` Frank

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