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    SubjectRe: broken VM in 2.4.10-pre9
    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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