Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th Jul 2006 17:09 UTC, submitted by IdaAshley
"The Linux kernel continues to evolve, incorporating new technologies and gaining in reliability, scalability, and performance. One of the most important features of the 2.6 kernel is a scheduler implemented by Ingo Molnar. This scheduler is dynamic, supports load-balancing, and operates in constant time -- O(1). This article explores these attributes of the Linux 2.6 scheduler, and more."
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2006-02-15
As people already stated, the fault is not with the Linux kernel. The things you describe might be because of X, disabled DMA on disks, poor drivers and so on and so forth. Especially enabling DMA gives a nice overall boost to everything if it isn't enabled. Though, I don't know any recent distro which doesn't enable DMA by default..