Re: Rik van Riel's VM patch

From: Bill Huey (billh@gnuppy.monkey.org)
Date: Sat Sep 02 2000 - 20:10:05 EDT

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    John,

    > Hi, this is just a short no-statistics testimony that Rik's VM patch
    > to test8-pre1 seems much improved over test7. I have a UP P200 with 40Mb,
    > and previously running KDE2 + mozilla was totally unusable.

    > With the patch, things run much more smoothly. Interactive feel seems
    > better, and I don't have "swapping holidays" any more.
     
    > Heavily stressing it by g++ is better as well...
    >
    > just a data point,
    > john

    Yes, it kicks butt and it finally (just about) removes the final
    Linux kernel showstopper for recent kernels. ;-)

    I did a GNOME + KDE2 + c++ compile since I've been doing port work
    and I have similar experiences.

    bill

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