Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Nov 1998 12:26:21 -0500 (EST) | From | Rafal Wierzbicki <> | Subject | Re: not a desktop OS |
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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 > > -- > Romano Giannetti, Professor - Univ. Pontificia Comillas (Madrid, Spain) > Electronic Engineer - phone +34 915 422 800 ext 2410 fax +34 915 596 569 > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
Ralf Wierzbicki
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