From: Bill Huey <billh@gnuppy.monkey.org>
To: John Levon <moz@compsoc.man.ac.uk>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Rik van Riel's VM patch
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 17:10:05 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200009030010.RAA01038@gnuppy.monkey.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0009021834220.21467-100000@mrbusy.compsoc.man.ac.uk> "from John Levon at Sep 2, 2000 06:39:22 pm"
John,
> Hi, this is just a short no-statistics testimony that Rik's VM patch
> to test8-pre1 seems much improved over test7. I have a UP P200 with 40Mb,
> and previously running KDE2 + mozilla was totally unusable.
> With the patch, things run much more smoothly. Interactive feel seems
> better, and I don't have "swapping holidays" any more.
> Heavily stressing it by g++ is better as well...
>
> just a data point,
> john
Yes, it kicks butt and it finally (just about) removes the final
Linux kernel showstopper for recent kernels. ;-)
I did a GNOME + KDE2 + c++ compile since I've been doing port work
and I have similar experiences.
bill
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-09-03 0:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-09-02 17:39 John Levon
2000-09-03 0:10 ` Bill Huey [this message]
2000-09-03 0:28 ` Byron Stanoszek
2000-09-03 2:14 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-09-03 21:38 ` Peter Rival
2000-09-03 11:47 ` Alan Cox
2000-09-03 20:47 ` Rik van Riel
2000-09-04 1:47 ` Andrey Savochkin
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