performance tests conducted on 7.04, 7.10, 8.04, 8.10rc

[Jeff Schroeder]

> From: Mirco M?ller <mirco.mueller at ubuntu.com>
> Subject: performance tests conducted on 7.04, 7.10, 8.04, 8.10rc
>
> Greetings everybody!
>
>        Phoronix ran performance tests on releases 7.04, 7.10, 8.04 and 8.10rc.
> 8.10 seems to be the worst performer of the quartet. Have a look at
> their summarizing article:
>
>        http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_bench_2008&num=1
>
>        They are trying to be fair and point out possible causes for the
> slowdowns. While this has only been tested on a ThinkPad T60 their
> initial findings are nothing to write home about. Most influential are
> crucial parts like the kernel, gcc, Xorg, graphics-drivers.
>
> Time for alarm-bells to go off?

Well from a networking standpoint, the Linux kernel has been doing
poorly as of late:
http://www.ioremap.net/node/37

It looks like phoronix missed that aspect entirely :-/

> Best regards ...
>
> Mirco

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