I will know better when the load ramps up next week but 2.4.4 (with Al Viro's prune_icache() patch) just seems to "feel" better than the previous 2.4 kernels did. This is a UP Pentium-III with 256MB RAM used as a web server with about 100 connections open as I write this and serving about 50 requests/sec. Note this machine does not run X or have any users logged in, it is just a plain old web server (Debian Woody and Apache). Now that I have said this it will likely turn into a smoking heap of silicon. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/