Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 25 Sep 2001 18:18:11 +0200 | From | Martin Knoblauch <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.10 much better than previous 2.4.x :-) |
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> Re: 2.4.10 much better than previous 2.4.x :-) > > > On 24 Sep 2001, Michael Rothwell wrote: > > > This is mainly a thank you for 2.4.10. It performs much better than > > 2.4.7 (RedHat version), from which I upgraded. Interactive performance > > for applications (Gnome, Evolution, Mozilla) is much improved, > > If you have the time, could you also test 2.4.9-ac15 ? > > (The -ac VM has basically branched off at 2.4.7 and has > evolved quite a bit since ... last week I fixed a stupid > page aging bug and things should be a lot better than > before now) > > regards, > > Rik > Rik,
just did a short test with both 2.4.9-ac15 and 2.4.10 plain on a Notebook with 320 MB and twice as much swap. "/" is on reiserfs.
Both look a lot better that anything before. With my workload of netscape, NT_under_vmware (128 MB memory) and a kernel compile I am not using swap for the first time since in 2.4.x.
My feeling is that 2.4.10 behaves a bit better with high I/O activity on the reiserfs partition. Maybe this can be attributed to the latest reiserfs stuff that went into 2.4.10, but not yet in -ac. The responsiveness when "suspending" the vmware session has definitely improved with 2.4.10. With 2.4.9-ac the system "freezes" for some seconds during that operation.
In any case, good work in both trees.
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