Re: same application code - different behavior with kernels 2.4 vs. 2.6

2010-04-30 Thread Aviv Greenberg
Alex Hi, Looks like in 2.4 your apps spent most of the time waiting for data (select) - and in 2.6 they spend more time doing I/O (writev). I assume this is network I/O - but it might be disk. If it's network, check for things that might worsen network I/O: MTU / Csum offloads / Net card driver +

same application code - different behavior with kernels 2.4 vs. 2.6

2010-04-26 Thread Alexander Indenbaum
Hey, I'm playing with a Linux embedded box. Some time ago, we (finally) switched from kernel 2.4.36 to 2.6.18.8. Naturally libc was also upgraded. What have not changed was the sources of the applications: Firefox 2.0 running on top of custom X server. GTK/pango/cairo/etc are also identical in bot