From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 20:05:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 20:05:42 -0400 Received: from [195.223.140.107] ([195.223.140.107]:16113 "EHLO athlon.random") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 20:05:39 -0400 Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 02:06:17 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Michael Rothwell Cc: lkml Subject: Re: 2.4.10 much better than previous 2.4.x :-) Message-ID: <20010926020617.T1782@athlon.random> In-Reply-To: <1001377785.1430.7.camel@gromit.house> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1001377785.1430.7.camel@gromit.house>; from rothwell@holly-springs.nc.us on Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 08:29:44PM -0400 X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 08:29:44PM -0400, Michael Rothwell wrote: > > This is mainly a thank you for 2.4.10. It performs much better than > 2.4.7 (RedHat version), from which I upgraded. Interactive performance > for applications (Gnome, Evolution, Mozilla) is much improved, and my > swap load is at zero, which is probably where it should be (2.4.7 would > regularly be using 256MB of swap with the same applications running). if you apply vm-tweaks-1 it should get even better ;). Andrea