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Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 18:01:31 GMT
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From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] VM improvements for 2.1.131
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To: Rik van Riel <H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl>
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Hi,

On Mon, 7 Dec 1998 14:04:04 +0100 (CET), Rik van Riel
<H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl> said:

> what we really need is somebody to try it out on 4M and
> 8M machines...

Been doing that.  2.1.130 is the fastest kernel ever in 8MB (using
defrag builds over NFS as a benchmark): 25% faster that 2.0.36.  2.1.131
is consistently about 10% slower at the same job than 130 (but still
faster than 2.0 ever was).

--Stephen
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