Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 28 Mar 1998 22:11:45 -0500 (EST) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.91 swap performance: jerky. |
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On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > > > You are definitely on the right track..... > > Good. > > > Linux compile on 166 MHz Pentium Linux 2.1.91 > > Buslogic SCSI > > > > Time: ~16 minutes > > > > Booting 2.1.90 from a floppy, same kernel, takes ~24 minutes. > > Just out of interest, how much memory do you have? Also, can you give > numbers for doing the same thing under 2.0.33 just to sanity-check (2.1.90 > was not necessarily very good in this regard, and getting better from bad > is not something to be too proud of ;)?
I have 64 meg on both machines with 128 meg of swap. Both machines are identical except for SMP; fast SCSI-2 Baracuda drives. Swap is on a seperate drive used only for /tmp and swap.
> > > Linux compile on 166 MHz dual Pentium SMP Linux 2.1.91 > > Buslogic SCSI > > > > Total time: ~14 minutes > > > > Booting 2.1.90 from a floppy, same kernel, takes ~20 minutes. > > Same questions, if at all possible.. > > Linus > I will try, but I will have to do it Monday since I don't feel too good about rebooting new kernels remotely.
Cheers, Dick Johnson ***** FILE SYSTEM MODIFIED ***** Penguin : Linux version 2.1.91 on an i586 machine (66.15 BogoMips). Warning : It's hard to remain at the trailing edge of technology.
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