From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 11 Aug 2001 23:50:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 11 Aug 2001 23:50:23 -0400 Received: from dc-mx04.cluster0.hsacorp.net ([209.225.8.14]:55687 "EHLO dc-mx04.cluster1.charter.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 11 Aug 2001 23:50:16 -0400 Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 23:48:24 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: VM working much better in 2.4.8 than before Message-ID: <20010811234822.A422@debian> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i From: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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)