Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 12 Jan 1999 11:42:46 -0800 | | From | "Alexander V. Voinov" <> | | Subject | feedback for 2.2pre5 |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > I'm going to be extremely rude to people who knew better but didn't test out the pre- kernels and then send me bug-reports on the released 2.2.0.
1. 'make bzImage' after a failed 'make zImage' (too big kernel) results in full recompilation of everything. This is annoying, though evidently doesn't take too much time on modern hardware.
2. *Feeling* of multitasking is reduced to zero when one of the running tasks performs disk access in such a way, that caching cannot make it smooth. My example is building a set of index files for an obsolete version of some database (not to blame its vendor). Random disk access on a range of several hundreds of megs. (RAM: 64M) This situation under 2.2 seems to be better than under 2.0, but still unpleasant. It takes minutes to launch emacs during that time, not speaking about netscape.
All other things seem to go smoothly. No problems with NFS and NTFS, to mention a few of not them.
Alexander
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