VM working much better in 2.4.8 than before

misty-@charter.net
Sat, 11 Aug 2001 23:48:24 -0400


I've said it before, I'll say it again - you guys deserve a
'this is a great thing' report once in a while. This is such a report :)
use is quite minimal - This affects my 486 quite noticably, I don't have
exact figures but I'm guessing it's startup time is 1/3 of normal.
Shocked the heck out of me, and it's using only 10MB of swap when
idle where it used to use at least 15-20MB. Also I've noticed much less
swap activity during heavy use, which is really helping both my old 486
in a extremely noticable way (hard disk is a huge bottleneck on that
poor demented trashcan :) and my K6-III which has a udma 66 disk... When
it doesn't have to pay attention to writing to the swap partition, it
obviously can be doing other things. Which helps. Really! :)

Thanks for the improvements, all of you,

Tim McGrath

(formerly at tcm@nac.net)
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