Re: UP 2.2.18 makes kernels 3% faster than UP 2.4.0-test12

Zdenek Kabelac
2000-12-11T20:21:49Z

Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > Doing a 'make bzImage' is NOT VM-intensive. Using this as a test
> > for the VM doesn't make any sense since it doesn't really excercise
> > the VM in any way...
>
> Its an interesting demo that 2.4 has some performance problems since 2.2
> is slower than 2.0 although nowdays not much.

Speaking about performance - could someone explain me why
md5checksumming on 10GB
partition is taking my whole 128MB memory and is permamently swaping out
every application off my memory to swap so the computer is very slow
during
this process???

Could I set somewhere in /proc that I do not wish to have 100MB disk
buffers ?

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