Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Nov 2000 15:30:20 -0200 (BRDT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Any advantage to kernel 2.4 in low-end system? |
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On Mon, 20 Nov 2000 Steven_Snyder@3com.com wrote:
> In reading about the cool new features of Linux v2.4, most of > the improvements/changes seem to relate to high-end systems. > Would users of low-end systems (386/486, low memory, etc.) be > advised to stay with kernel v2.2.x or is v2.4.x the way to go > for these systems as well?
The memory management in 2.4 should be quite a bit better for systems where the working set size is more than a tiny fraction of system memory ;)
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