Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable

Mark Hahn (hahn@physics.mcmaster.ca)
Mon, 21 Jan 2002 16:42:28 -0500 (EST)


> Explaining responsiveness is like describing color to a blind person, any
> quantifications totally miss the experience.

you overestimate human uniqueness - we all have near-identical
perceptual hardware, and there *is* an absolute limit
beyond which no human can perceive. for our purposes, let's
say it's 5ms.

> There are some responsemarks which may or may not be useful, feel free to
> actually locate and run these and post the results instead of posting

I posted "realfeel" last year, AKPM added some touches to it.
it's in his amlat bundle.

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