Re: Rik spreading bullshit about VM

J Sloan
2002-01-17T00:26:13Z

Erik Mouw wrote:

>Sorry, but in my opinion Rik's rmap VM still beats your VM under IO
>load. My benchmark is very simple: import a kernel tree into a CVS tree
>that already contains about 470 other kernel trees. Both the import
>directory and the CVS root are on the same disk. With 2.4.17 the mp3
>player stutters, I can't even read email or edit a couple of files with
>XEmacs at the same time. With 2.4.17-rmap-11a the mp3 player runs
>smoothly and email and XEmacs are usable again.
>
Nice try, but do the test again with 2.4.18-pre2-aa2 -

2.4.17 doesn't neccesarily have all andrea's fixes.

Just my .02

jjs