[OFF-TOPIC] linux 2.4 or 2.6

[Maxwell Heidegger]

On 10/25/06, Serhat Sakarya <serhat at sakarya.nl> wrote:
>
> Being able to use epoll is by itself reason enough to switch to 2.6.
>
> Which web setups are you referring to? The distributions I use on my
> desktops and with our dedicated host providers have no issue with giving a
> 2.6 kernel.
>
> Regards,
>
> Serhat
>
> On 10/25/06, Ivan Krstić <krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Evert|Rooftop wrote:
> > > My question is, are there any reasons in web-setups to stick with the
> > > 2.4 kernel instead of 2.6..
> >
> > No. And if you do, libevent won't be able to use epoll, which will
> > severely degrade memcached's network performance with many connected
> > clients.
> >
> > --
> > Ivan Krstić <krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> | GPG: 0x147C722D
> >
>
>
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