Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 2 Sep 2002 10:20:18 -0300 (BRT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Benchmarks for performance patches (-ck) for 2.4.19 |
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On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Ingo Oeser wrote:
> This is not only X. The problem is the software layering bloat. > Thats a design mistake we copied from W*ndows in our Linux > applications.
Agreed, it is not just in one layer of the system.
However, changing the kernel _has_ resulted in a large improvement in interactivity and does allow me to run bonnie++ or even a 'bk clone' while playing mp3s and without losing interactivity or having the mp3s skip...
On a machine with 192 MB RAM.
regards,
Rik -- Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH".
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