From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@timpanogas.com>
To: Bill Huey <billh@gnuppy.monkey.org>
Cc: John Levon <moz@compsoc.man.ac.uk>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Rik van Riel's VM patch
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 20:14:09 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <39B1B3F1.B228FABA@timpanogas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200009030010.RAA01038@gnuppy.monkey.org>
Someone tell Rik to get his hands on a copy of AIMS-7 and start
benchmarking his VM so when the SCO Unix numbers hit the street, we've
got a rebuttal and fix dates to tell folks.
:-)
Jeff
Bill Huey wrote:
>
> 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 2:14 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
2000-09-03 0:28 ` Byron Stanoszek
2000-09-03 2:14 ` Jeff V. Merkey [this message]
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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