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SubjectRe: not a desktop OS

Kernel version is 2.1.130, with only X, xemacs and 4 xterms running I'm 32
MB into swap (my swap partition is 32MB) and I left the system running for
the night.

On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Romano Giannetti wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 11:57:15PM -0500, Rafal Wierzbicki wrote:
> >
> > The new swapping code in 2.1.x is not a good idea for desktop or single
> > user machines... Instead of expected performance increase it actually
> > decreases the performance of my home machine. I have enough memory not to
> > use swap at all with the programs I'm running. Instead what happens is
> > that when I work on something for a while I find the rest of my programs
> > swapped out and bringing them back to life takes a lot of time, and when
> > they finally start responding my other idle programs get swapped out.
> > This is *bad*. Right now disabling swap space seems like a good idea
> > (sic!).
>
> What kernel version? I am working with 2.1.130 here since nine o'clock
> (it's eleven twenty) and have 0 byte of swap used.
>
> Bye,
> Romano
>
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> Electronic Engineer - phone +34 915 422 800 ext 2410 fax +34 915 596 569
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