Re: 2.5.34-mm4

Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Sun, 15 Sep 2002 14:39:26 -0300 (BRT)


On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Axel Siebenwirth wrote:

> > I have seen that it used more swap that usual.
>
> 2.5 is much more swaphappy than 2.4. I believe that this is actually
> correct behaviour for optimum throughput. But it just happens that
> people (me included) hate it.

Time for a corollary to "if you can't measure it, it doesn't exist":

"If you can't measure desktop performance, our method of development
will ensure it won't exist"

cheers,

Rik

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