Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 21 Sep 2001 16:29:50 +0200 | From | Gábor Lénárt <> | Subject | Re: broken VM in 2.4.10-pre9 |
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On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 08:00:44PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > On 19 Sep 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > > That added to the fact that last time someone ran the numbers linux > > was considerably faster than the BSD for mm type operations when not > > swapping. And this is the common case. > > Optimising the VM for not swapping sounds kind of like > optimising your system for doing empty fork()/exec()/exit() > loops ;)
Maybe not since I'm not using swap :) The rule is (well at least it was ...) for 2.4.x desktop systems: buy 256Mb of RAM (and disable swapping at all), it's cheap ... and after that you will be able to use 2.4.x instead of 2.2.x quite well.
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