kernel 2.6.38 & auto sched

[Kevin J. Cummings]

On 03/19/2011 01:16 PM, mike cloaked wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Genes MailLists <lists at sapience.com> wrote:
> 
>>  Wow - is this kernel awesome ... I am beating the poo out of the
>> machine - and interactivity is stellar ...
>>
>>  fedora 14 really should get the benefit of auto sched ... no issues so
>> far at all.
>>
>>  Not sure I have any USB 1 devices ... so cannot test that ..
> 
> Seeing this posting above I decided to try it too - I pulled the rpms
> for kernel-PAE, kernel-PAE-devel, perf and kernel-headers for i686 and
> yum install/updated in a fully up-to-date F14 laptop - after rebooting
> there was initially quite a lot of disk activity for a minute or so
> after logging in to gnome but then it all settled down and works
> beautifully - including updating the NetworkManager package from
> updates-testing.
> 
> Certainly this works really well.  I will test further for a few days
> but on the basis of my tests with this laptop which has nvidia
> graphics  G86M [Quadro FX 360M] I am pretty impressed. If I find no
> problems I will likely put this into all my f14 machines before too
> long.

Sounds great!  For some reason, I always end up with a thrashing machine
after a while.  Where I really want it is my F13 home server which will
be going to F15 as soon as F15 enters BETA.  My F14 laptop
can wait until the server is stable.  B^)  Can't wait!

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