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From: Mark Orr <markorr@intersurf.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.0-ac9 works, but slower and swappier
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 07:02:11 -0600 (CST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <XFMail.20010115070211.markorr@intersurf.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101150318000.12760-100000@freak.distro.conectiva>


On 15-Jan-2001 Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Mark Orr wrote:
>> I've been running 2.4.0-ac9 for a day and a half now.
>> 
>> I have pretty low-end hardware (Pentium 1/ 100MHz, 16Mb RAM,
>> 17Mb swap)  and it really seems to bog down with anything
>> heavy in memory.    Netscape seems to really drag, and any
>> Java applets I encounter positively crawl -- you can see
>> the individual widgets being drawn.
> 
> Could you please try this patch:
> 
> http://bazar.conectiva.com.br/~marcelo/patches/v2.4/2.4.1pre3/try_to_free_page
> s-3.patch  > and report results?

Yeah, I just applied the patch and recompiled.  Yes, it fixed it, pretty
decisively too.

P100/16Mb RAM/17Mb swap -- run Netscape 3.04, and start some large Java
applet -- like a Java-based game or Yahoo Chat or some such.

...on 240-ac4, it works okay.   On 240-ac9, the disk grinds away, and it's
so slow you can see individual widgets being drawn.

With this patch, it's pretty much back to the way it was in -ac4, maybe a
little better.

thanx.

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      reply	other threads:[~2001-01-15 13:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-15  0:39 2.4.0-ac9 works, but slower and swappier Mark Orr
2001-01-15  5:20 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-15 13:02   ` Mark Orr [this message]

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