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Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 23:58:59 -0600
From: Neil Schemenauer <nascheme@enme.ucalgary.ca>
Subject: Re: PATCH: Possible solution to VM problems (take 2)
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Rik van Riel:
> I am now testing the patch on my small test machine and must
> say that things look just *great*. I can start up a gimp while
> bonnie is running without having much impact on the speed of
> either.
> 
> Interactive performance is nice and stability seems to be
> great as well.

We using the same patch?  I applied wait_buffers_02.patch from
Juan's site to pre9-2.  Running "Bonnie -s 250" on a 128 MB
machine causes extremely poor interactive performance.  The
machine is totaly unresponsive for up to a minute at a time.

    Neil
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