Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Nov 1998 11:19:11 +0100 | From | Romano Giannetti <> | Subject | Re: not a desktop OS |
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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
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