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SubjectRe: 2.1.79 success
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, David Burrows wrote:
...
> Swap performance seems to have increased drastically, or I might be just
> imagining things. But I have X, Netscape, BitchX loaded as well as nfsd,
> smbd nmbd, rc5 cracking client, crond and numerous other daemons. And the
> system is still running quite speedily. The mouse moves smoothly while
> netscape is loading, whereas before it certainly did not. I'm impressed
> anyway. :)
...

Thank Stephen Tweedie for that - he's done a beautiful job of replacing
the old swap-cache mechanism with a mechanism using the page cache
instead.

-ben


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