Possible evidence of performance regression for 8.1-S (vs. 7.1)

[Adrian Chadd]

On 22 October 2010 06:42, David Wolfskill <david at catwhisker.org> wrote:

>> Julian's suggestion of booting the 8.1 kernel on the 7.1 OS will definitely
>> narrow down the list of suspects.
>
> I'll see about doing something along those lines, but I doubt it will be
> all that helpful, actually.

It narrows down the suspect to the kernel, rather than the userland.

The third option is that it's both kernel+userland and some way they
play badly together; let's hope it isn't that.


adrian