Re: Rik van Riel's VM patch

From: Jeff V. Merkey (jmerkey@timpanogas.com)
Date: Sat Sep 02 2000 - 22:14:09 EDT

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    Someone tell Rik to get his hands on a copy of AIMS-7 and start
    benchmarking his VM so when the SCO Unix numbers hit the street, we've
    got a rebuttal and fix dates to tell folks.

    :-)

    Jeff

    Bill Huey wrote:
    >
    > 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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