Messages in this thread | | | From | "tzanger" <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.91 swap performance: jerky. | Date | Fri, 27 Mar 1998 20:25:03 -0500 |
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>>expect.. 4-5MB "free" at all times, despite continuous swapping. >This is intentional. The background swapping tries to swap out enough
Works great on my setup... recompiling the kernel and other miscellany always kept about 4-5 megs of "real" memory free.
>Good. This is actually the major aim of the 2.1.90 code: to keep the >system interactive "feel" the right way, by having a background swapout >that is fairly aggressive but really stays in the background (and it is >designed to be aggressive enough that it should hopefully never get to >the state where the machine gets so tight on free memory that it starts >to feel unresponsive).
my machine (486DX4/120 16M) held a load average around 1.8 to 2.5 while compiling 2.1.91 non SMP, running 2.1.91 SMP (damn makefile heh) but it wasn't too bad wandering around from a remote telnet session. Definately looking up. :-)
Andrew
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