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SubjectRe: VM performance
On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 02:38:39PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > "Is this something that normal people would ever really care deeply
> > > about?"
> >
> > Probably, if there are people other than me that are still using systems
> > with 16mb of physical RAM. There probably are some. Maybe.

I, for one, have a box with 16M of RAM.

>
> On 32Mb 2.2.0pre9 works ok but not well [1] - I can build a kernel without
> much swapping while doing other stuff, on 2.1.132 I can build two
> kernels in parallel with the same kind of feel while 2.2.0x chokes up
> horribly at this point.
>
> [1] It still beats 2.0.x I should point out 8)
>
>
> On 8Mb 2.2.0pre6, pre8, pre9 are basically unusable while 2.1.132 was fine
>

Ye gods. If that's the case, 2.2.0 sure ain't going on my 386 with 6M of RAM
(which is all I have at the moment, but that's a long story).

> Alan
>
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