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Hello,

> when booting normally and I can tell you for sure that mc0 on 2.1.rc5
> kernel worked better than on 2.0.2 generic. I believe that the reason
> a lot of people are getting different performances with same mc0
> having same kernel are because of networking equipment they use or
> rather level of intelligence of their equipment, I've got old 24port
> HP hub, and all network activity goes from all pcs in my house to
> others (which are 4 at the moment + router) so 2.0.2 kernel seemed to
> handle things much worse than 2.1.rc5.

The interrupt handling fixes we did a while ago were pulled up into 2.1
if I remember correctly, without them the kernel would lose lots of
interrupts which degrades performance pretty much anywhere ( and made
the serial ports more or less unusable for instance ). This alone could
explain why mc does better in 2.1.

I wouldn't recommend anything older than 2.1 on an old world Mac to
anyone.

have fun
Michael

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