Re: broken VM in 2.4.10-pre9

Rik van Riel
2001-09-19T23:01:10Z

On 19 Sep 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> That added to the fact that last time someone ran the numbers linux
> was considerably faster than the BSD for mm type operations when not
> swapping. And this is the common case.

Optimising the VM for not swapping sounds kind of like
optimising your system for doing empty fork()/exec()/exit()
loops ;)

cheers,

Rik
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