17 Sep
2010
17 Sep
'10
8:15 a.m.
Cliffe, Stephen wrote:
Does anyone know why there would be such a big difference between the
two
OS's?
Linux kernel performed a huge rewrite and significant performance optimization of major subsystems (scheduler, networking) in 2.6 kernels. AFAIK Slowlaris was never really optimized for systems with less then 16 CPUs.
You may find this article interesting: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-web26/index.html
Mike