> I/O bandwidth-wise, my 300MHz PII notebook, feels like a GHz processor. Of
> course, the feeling falls flat on its face once CPU intensive work occurs
> (Now why can't linux make the CPU faster :-).
I've also been using the 2.6.0-test series for a week or two now, and
using the p4_clockmod driver and the userspace governer with the new
sysfs, I can make my 2.2GHz laptop feel like a 233MHz system! (-=
Everything is really coming together with this kernel, ACPI works great, I
have full control over power managment, cpu speed, there's finally posix
acls built in, and all kinds of other good stuff.
So far I have only run into one bug in the new kernel, but I don't think
it's one a lot of people will notice, when your kernel has built in initrd
support, but not built in ramdisk, devfs will oops when you modprobe the
ramdisk driver later. (There's actually a fairly sane reason I'm using
initrd without ramdisk support, but it's not something most "normal"
people would do)
--Nick
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