Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Jan 1998 17:07:55 -0500 (EST) | From | Benjamin LaHaise <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.79 success |
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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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