What Kernel are you guys using?
I have seen some people claiming that custom kernels like zen cachyos offer better battery life and performance.
Is it true ?
What Kernel are you guys using?
I have seen some people claiming that custom kernels like zen cachyos offer better battery life and performance.
Is it true ?
zen and lts as fallback
iirc zen has a scheduler that is supposed to be better for single user multitask desktop situations, while the regular kernel scheduler is better for server workloads.
Do you have any data to show it actually is better?
Desktop and server workloads aren’t that different in practice.
It is very hard to measure responsiveness (which is basically the only thing zen claims to be better at) without a lot of time investment and a high speed camera for frame analysis.
I guess a possible setup would be to run a multicore synthetic workload that takes most of the system resources and measuring the start time desktop applications.
But nobody has done it in a “scientific” way as far as I can see. Besides some hobbyist anecdotal observations:
https://reddit.rtrace.io/r/linux/comments/fh0hc2/its_time_for_desktop_distributions_to_adopt_a/
https://forum.garudalinux.org/t/kernel-benchmarking-results-zen-cacule-tkg-bore/18831/8