Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:12:55 -0500 (EST) | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable |
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On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Horst von Brand wrote:
> Robert Love <rml@tech9.net> said: > > [...] > > > It doesn't have to run mostly in the kernel. It just has to be in the > > kernel when the I/O-bound tasks awakes. Further, there are plenty of > > what we consider CPU-bound tasks that are interactive and/or > > graphics-oriented and this adds much to their time in the kernel. [ snip ] > For the mostly positive (subjective) responses you see, there is something > called "psycology", which would predict that for _exactly_ the same "feel" > (whatever that may be) somebody who just made an effort downloading > patches, applying them, reconfiguring ad building a kernel "to make it feel > better" _will_ feel it better. I.e., nobody wants to have to say "Okay, > lots of work down the drain". Besides, those who see no difference will > shut up, those that delude themselves most will be vocal about it.
Ah, that's it, we're deluding ourselves. To the point that booting a kernel without identification and having casual users watch the cursor move while running a standard low will result in those users sharing our delusion.
-- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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