Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable

Erik Andersen
2002-01-12T23:25:06Z

On Sat Jan 12, 2002 at 10:18:35PM +0100, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 14:02:13 -0700
> Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org> wrote:
>
> > > And guess what? Nobody has tested the damn thing, so it's going
> > > nowhere.
> >
> > I've tested it. I've been running it on my box for the last
> > several days. Works just great. My box has been quite solid
> > with it and I've not seen anything to prevent your sending it
> > to Marcelo for 2.4.18...
>
> Sorry for this dumb question:
> What is the difference to vanilla exactly like in your setup? Better
> interactive feeling? Throughput?

To be honest, not a _huge_ difference. I've been mostly doing
development, and when I happen to have, for example, a kernel
compile and a gcc compile going on, xmms isn't skipping for me
at all, while previously I would hear skips every so often.

-Erik

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