From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Huey Message-Id: <200009030010.RAA01038@gnuppy.monkey.org> Subject: Re: Rik van Riel's VM patch In-Reply-To: "from John Levon at Sep 2, 2000 06:39:22 pm" Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 17:10:05 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: John Levon Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 -- 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/