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From: <misty-@charter.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: VM working much better in 2.4.8 than before
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 23:48:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010811234822.A422@debian> (raw)

	I've said it before, I'll say it again - you guys deserve a
'this is a great thing' report once in a while. This is such a report :)
>From 2.4.7 to 2.4.8 the greatest effect I've seen so far is that my swap
use is quite minimal - This affects my 486 quite noticably, I don't have
exact figures but I'm guessing it's startup time is 1/3 of normal.
Shocked the heck out of me, and it's using only 10MB of swap when
idle where it used to use at least 15-20MB. Also I've noticed much less
swap activity during heavy use, which is really helping both my old 486
in a extremely noticable way (hard disk is a huge bottleneck on that
poor demented trashcan :) and my K6-III which has a udma 66 disk... When
it doesn't have to pay attention to writing to the swap partition, it
obviously can be doing other things. Which helps. Really! :)

Thanks for the improvements, all of you,

Tim McGrath

(formerly at tcm@nac.net)

             reply	other threads:[~2001-08-12  3:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-12  3:48 misty- [this message]
2001-08-13  8:41 ` VM working much better in 2.4.8 than before Helge Hafting
2001-08-13 10:55   ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-13 12:41     ` Alan Cox
2001-08-13 15:52       ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-14 13:03         ` Daniel Phillips

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