From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from f04n07.cac.psu.edu (f04s07.cac.psu.edu [128.118.141.35]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA09946 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 13:33:53 -0500 Message-ID: <369B9344.E7BA0203@psu.edu> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 13:24:04 -0500 From: Michael K Vance MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Results: Zlatko's new vm patch References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Steve Bergman , Andrea Arcangeli , brent verner , "Garst R. Reese" , Kalle Andersson , Zlatko Calusic , Ben McCann , bredelin@ucsd.edu, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org, Alan Cox , "Stephen C. Tweedie" List-ID: Linus Torvalds wrote: > Note that there are very few people who are testing interactive feel. I'd > be happier with more people giving more subjective comments on how the > system feels under heavy memory load. I left my machine today (64mb/80mb swap, running pre6 on an MMX/233) running netscape, xemacs, a few rxvt's, and xscreensaver. Many times when I get home after classes, xscreensaver's GL apps will have swapped large portions of netscape and xemacs out. Today when I came home, I tried to check my mail, and write a bit of code, but everything was swapping left and right. It wasn't just that netscape and xemacs got swapped back in, and then that was that--instead it just continually ground my hard drive as it downloaded email and I switched around to apps, etc, for a good few minutes. Very unpleasant. FYI, m. -- "We watched her fall over and lay down, shouting the poetic truths of high school journal keepers." -- Lee Rinaldo, Sonic Youth -- This is a majordomo managed list. To unsubscribe, send a message with the body 'unsubscribe linux-mm me@address' to: majordomo@kvack.org