Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Jan 1999 03:02:32 +1100 | From | Ed Lang <> | Subject | Re: VM performance |
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On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 02:38:39PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > > "Is this something that normal people would ever really care deeply > > > about?" > > > > Probably, if there are people other than me that are still using systems > > with 16mb of physical RAM. There probably are some. Maybe.
I, for one, have a box with 16M of RAM.
> > On 32Mb 2.2.0pre9 works ok but not well [1] - I can build a kernel without > much swapping while doing other stuff, on 2.1.132 I can build two > kernels in parallel with the same kind of feel while 2.2.0x chokes up > horribly at this point. > > [1] It still beats 2.0.x I should point out 8) > > > On 8Mb 2.2.0pre6, pre8, pre9 are basically unusable while 2.1.132 was fine >
Ye gods. If that's the case, 2.2.0 sure ain't going on my 386 with 6M of RAM (which is all I have at the moment, but that's a long story).
> Alan > --
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