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

Bill Davidsen
2002-01-29T23:17:13Z

On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Horst von Brand wrote:

> Robert Love <rml@tech9.net> said:
>
> [...]
>
> > It doesn't have to run mostly in the kernel. It just has to be in the
> > kernel when the I/O-bound tasks awakes. Further, there are plenty of
> > what we consider CPU-bound tasks that are interactive and/or
> > graphics-oriented and this adds much to their time in the kernel.
[ snip ]
> For the mostly positive (subjective) responses you see, there is something
> called "psycology", which would predict that for _exactly_ the same "feel"
> (whatever that may be) somebody who just made an effort downloading
> patches, applying them, reconfiguring ad building a kernel "to make it feel
> better" _will_ feel it better. I.e., nobody wants to have to say "Okay,
> lots of work down the drain". Besides, those who see no difference will
> shut up, those that delude themselves most will be vocal about it.

Ah, that's it, we're deluding ourselves. To the point that booting a
kernel without identification and having casual users watch the cursor
move while running a standard low will result in those users sharing our
delusion.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.