From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 03:26:51 -0400 Message-Id: <200008150726.e7F7QpO32375@tbird.iworld.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Mime-Version: 1.0 From: Rares Marian Subject: 2.4.0-t4-vmpatch rocks Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Just a note: this has to go into the official release. I'll have more to say later today, but i'll leave with these two anecdotes: 1. 2.4.0-test4 caused synaesthesia-xmms to perform very poorly. The patch fixed it. The comparison is striking. Not: rebuild modules, my sb32awe modules failed after the patch, so I had to rebuild them. 2. I used blackbox because mozilla and netscape performance as well as interactions with gnome drove me insane but I need 2.4.0-test4 for my TV input card Normally, it would take between 30 and 45 seconds under 2.2.15 and 2.4.0-test4 unpatched to just start Helix. While in blackbox I decided to test the patch. I was able to shut down X, desktopcfg to GNOME, and get Helix 1.2 Preview + themes + several panel applets up in not more than 30 o seconds or so. It's at least 2-3x faster. See below: [02:32] *** rares (rares@wtrb-sh1-port77.snet.net) Quit ([x]chat) [02:32] you need linux for that [02:32] duh [02:32] gagh [02:32] I'll kill you [02:32] but it should port easily [02:32] openbsd is an awefull desktop os [02:32] Mankar: no ... was not me [02:32] meff: you noticed [02:32] freebsd is cool [02:33] Manker is a Wanker on my speech synthesis [02:33] Skapare: yah.. hehe.. openbsd sucks for desktop [02:33] meff: it also won't work for my tunneling project [02:33] meff: actually openbsd rocks my world. [02:33] meff: openbsd doesn't let me set my video mode [02:33] good you keep on thinking that :) [02:33] Skapare: not surprising.. [02:33] Skapare: not surprising.. [02:33] MacOs rocks you [02:33] heh [02:33] meff: although it does have a text mode, I can't change it to the mode I like [02:33] *** rares (rares@wtrb-sh1-port77.snet.net) has joined #slashdot ----------- end ------------- It's up to Linus if he wants it in. If it doesn't go in the official release I'll hack it in myself. And I'm not all that experienced. Note: Rik van Riel released the vmpatch a couple days ago plus a 1 line correction. People can find the full patch here. http://www.surriel.com/patches/2.4.0-t4-vmpatch This was on an Athlon 500 w/ 64MB RAM UltraDMA66 20G IDE drive Gigabyte (hdparm 3.9 fails :/ though in boot up Mdk 7.0 says it's ok.) Thanks to Free Unices, we've crawled back UP to 70's. ---------------------- Do you do Linux? :) Get your FREE @linuxstart.com email address at: http://www.linuxstart.com -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/