Linux 6.12 To Linux 6.18 LTS Upgrade Offers Worthwhile Benefits For 5th Gen AMD EPYC
Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 19 December 2025 at 10:38 AM EST. Page 6 of 8. 3 Comments.
Not as significant as some of the PostgreSQL wins, but ClickHouse also showed some minor improvements when upgrading to Linux 6.18 LTS.
Some incremental gains made by RocksDB on the newer kernels.
The Pogocache in-memory database regressed with newer versions of the Linux kernel but here an improvement when going from Linux 6.18 stable to Linux 6.19 Git.
Memcached similarly showed slower performance on newer kernels but a nice performance bump off Linux 6.19.