Messages in this thread |  | | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: 2.0, loggings, cpu quotas, 2.1 issues, etc. | Date | Tue, 11 Jun 1996 14:59:00 +0100 (BST) |
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> You have to remember you have open, read, possibly seek, and close, 3 to > 5 times per second. meter-0.2 or Portato code in the kernel would add 8k > at the very most, as well as better interactive time, especially on > smaller 386 systems.
Oh tragedy. Do you have any idea how tiny a load that is.
> We have to think of the humble 386SX16 users too... I have a P5, but a > 386, too. Portato makes the system load go up noticeably. Not to 2.0 or > anything, but noticeably.
Humble 386SX users will get far more benefit from 2 pages of pageable user memory.
Alan
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