| From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.0 wishlist | Date | Fri, 14 Jun 1996 09:41:59 +0100 (BST) |
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> the afformentioned kernels, a cycle/IO hungry process can really impact > system performance. I was quite horrified comparing my Sparc clone > (SunOS 403) which had 8MB (12ms SCSI2 in SCSI1 mode HD) versus a 8MB > 486/33 (10ms ISA IDE HD) ... Granted the 486 would be slower, but the
Your IDE disk drive is the big problem, it needs a lot of CPU supervision so swapping gets very very CPU intensive instead of being just a queueing operation with the card doing the smarts. 2.0.0 should be about as good as we can get on IDE (its a lot better all around for swapping than 1.2 as it uses very good algorithms now).
Alan
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