Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: 2.1.92(16MB) swap death | Date | Thu, 2 Apr 1998 19:00:16 +0100 (BST) |
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> 2.1.92 is about as bad as pre-2.1.92-2 on my 16MB system. I > commented out the "raising capabilites" message in fs/exec.c and > tried: > (1) compiling init/main.c -- no problem > (2) starting X and compiling from an xterm -- no problem > (3) starting top in another xterm and compiling -- > cached went down from 5548K to about 1024K > free stayed about 1024K > after a minute, screen froze > 20 minutes later I gave up and hit reset > > Is there any point in my going through this exercise?
This roughly matches my 8Mb box. On 32Mb 2.1.92 feels a bit better but has the odd disk frenzy, on the 8Mb box its as bad as 2.1.90/91 etc. I tried booting it on my 4Mb Zenith 386SX20 for a joke.
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