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I can't get the patch to actually apply to a vanilla 2.6.36 base. Lots of "offset -230 lines" and similarly worrying things, plus several hunks outright failed, plus inability to find referenced files. I'm attempting to apply with just 'patch -p1 < patch.txt'.
I'd be insane to try and compile after the source is left in this state.
Does anyone have any suggestions (or a different patch) for 2.6.36?
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Originally posted by rmenessec View PostI can't get the patch to actually apply to a vanilla 2.6.36 base. Lots of "offset -230 lines" and similarly worrying things, plus several hunks outright failed, plus inability to find referenced files. I'm attempting to apply with just 'patch -p1 < patch.txt'.
I'd be insane to try and compile after the source is left in this state.
Does anyone have any suggestions (or a different patch) for 2.6.36?
Your best bet would probably be to email the patch author and ask him very nicely for a backport to 2.6.36.
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something not measured by phoronix test suite
The Phoronix test suite does not measure this aspect of OS performance (latency of interactive or I/O bound processes/threads when CPU and memory resources are stressed). Such a test would also be a more direct measure of OS performance than the existing Phoronix tests, which mostly measure application performance (and indirectly the compiler that generated the application code). I am surprised that a 20 year old OS is not regularly benchmarked for this kind of performance.
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Originally posted by crispy View PostSo now it will actually be practiical to multitask in linux?
Have you not been able to do this in Linux, until now? Enterprise Unix have been able to do this for ages. Linux seems immature and have performance problems when doing few things at once. And if you try to do many things at once, Linux will surely have problems - this is called "scales bad".
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Originally posted by unimatrix View PostOf course there's the long-standing issue of measuring 'responsiveness'. If Phoronix could somehow do that, it would be a real blessing.
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Originally posted by XorEaxEax View PostI know alot of Finnish people speak swedish aswell, is Torvals one of those?
Man ?r v?l ocks? lite stolt som finlandssvensk ?ver Linus
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