Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 15 Jan 2001 07:02:11 -0600 (CST) | From | Mark Orr <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.0-ac9 works, but slower and swappier |
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On 15-Jan-2001 Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Mark Orr wrote: >> I've been running 2.4.0-ac9 for a day and a half now. >> >> I have pretty low-end hardware (Pentium 1/ 100MHz, 16Mb RAM, >> 17Mb swap) and it really seems to bog down with anything >> heavy in memory. Netscape seems to really drag, and any >> Java applets I encounter positively crawl -- you can see >> the individual widgets being drawn. > > Could you please try this patch: > > http://bazar.conectiva.com.br/~marcelo/patches/v2.4/2.4.1pre3/try_to_free_page > s-3.patch > and report results?
Yeah, I just applied the patch and recompiled. Yes, it fixed it, pretty decisively too.
P100/16Mb RAM/17Mb swap -- run Netscape 3.04, and start some large Java applet -- like a Java-based game or Yahoo Chat or some such.
...on 240-ac4, it works okay. On 240-ac9, the disk grinds away, and it's so slow you can see individual widgets being drawn.
With this patch, it's pretty much back to the way it was in -ac4, maybe a little better.
thanx.
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