Re: 2.4.0-ac9 works, but slower and swappier

Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-15T07:11:20Z

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_pages-3.patch

and report results?

Thanks