[Labs-l] building different kernel

Mon Mar 11 19:16:00 UTC 2013

mhm I need the xen version though... actually it's not so easy to find
it, while building is pretty simple

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Jan Luca <jan at jans-seite.de> wrote:
> There is a 3.8x kernel for ubuntu: http://packages.ubuntu.com/raring/kernel/
> -> linux-image, but I do not know if it works together with the other
> precise-packages and you have to download the headers, tools and other
> requirements, too, if you do not want to switch to raring (seems to be the
> alpha/beta/RC of Ubuntu 13.04).
>
> Best regards,
> Jan
>
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> Von: labs-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org
> [mailto:labs-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] Im Auftrag von Petr Bena
> Gesendet: Montag, 11. März 2013 19:43
> An: Wikimedia Labs
> Betreff: Re: [Labs-l] building different kernel
>
> I have no resources to run any benchmarks (for that I would need to build 2
> database instances with some data and run some tests) - I will just believe
> the btrfs developers that it is better.
>
> @Ryan thanks for translation! seems I understood something completely else.
> If there is some prebuilt package of 3.8x kernel I will happily download
> it...
>
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Jeremy Baron <jeremy at tuxmachine.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 7:37 AM, Petr Bena <benapetr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I am running 3.8 on all my personal machines (laptop & office desk
>>> pc) and it works pretty well, I hope that running that on new sql box
>>> where data storage has btrfs will improve the sql server performance
>>> slightly and eventually we get rid of potential problems caused by
>>> fixed bugs.
>>
>> Do you have any benchmarks planned to compare the 2 kernels?
>>
>> -Jeremy
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