Re: quad or dual core Intel CPUs

Arjen van der Meijden wrote:

>
> But be aware that there can be substantial and unexpected differences on
> this relatively new platform due to simply changing the OS, like we saw
> when going from linux 2.6.15 to 2.6.18, as you can see here:
> http://tweakers.net/reviews/657/2


Having upgraded to 2.6.18 fairly recently, I am *very* interested in
what caused the throughput to drop in 2.6.18?  I haven't done any
benchmarking on my system to know if it affected my usage pattern
negatively, but I am curious if anyone knows why this happened?

-Dan