From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 20:28:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Byron Stanoszek Subject: Re: Rik van Riel's VM patch In-Reply-To: <200009030010.RAA01038@gnuppy.monkey.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Bill Huey Cc: John Levon , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, 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 This patch is plain awesome. It really sped up my 586 test machine (very noticible when compiling XFree86.. which knocked off about a half hour of compilation time), and there isn't a [noticable] memory leak like in the old VM system before. Good work, Rik. Tell us when it's integrated into the kernel. :) -- Byron Stanoszek Ph: (330) 644-3059 Systems Programmer Fax: (330) 644-8110 Commercial Timesharing Inc. Email: bstanoszek@comtime.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/