Messages in this thread |  | | From | Allan Sandfeld <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.13pre3aa1 | Date | Wed, 17 Oct 2001 10:55:50 +0200 |
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On Tuesday 16 October 2001 20:38, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > > Hm, from looking at the presented numbers I tend to believe that you are > driving this system up to the limits. Very possible that ac kernels deal a > bit better with the situation because of neat swap-management. But very > much of your mem is really used by appilcations and very few (in > comparison) is used by page cache, so there is not really much room to play > with. If I were to give advice, I'd either > a) buy mem (something like additional 256 MB) > or > b) throw away K, and replace by more resource-conscious stuff like wm, > or/and an acceptable mail-client like sylpheed. > Both would do quantum-leaps in your configuration, compared to very small > playground left for vm treatment. Whatever is swapped could be the wrong > thing, depending on your further actions. > Try it and compare the time and memory consumption for: > a) Startup > b) Exit > c) Starting your mail-client > d) updatedb > with K and with wm (just to mention a nice example)
e) Just hope the bug is already fixed On a suggestion from Luigi Genoni I tried 2.4.13-pre3aa1. The problem IS infact fixed. From a subjective point of view I would again claim the Andrea VM leaves the system much more responsive when updatedb is running than the VM in 2.4.12-ac3.
Nice!! :)
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