Re: [PATCH] VM improvements for 2.1.131

Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Mon, 7 Dec 1998 18:01:31 GMT


Hi,

On Mon, 7 Dec 1998 14:04:04 +0100 (CET), Rik van Riel
<H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl> said:

> what we really need is somebody to try it out on 4M and
> 8M machines...

Been doing that. 2.1.130 is the fastest kernel ever in 8MB (using
defrag builds over NFS as a benchmark): 25% faster that 2.0.36. 2.1.131
is consistently about 10% slower at the same job than 130 (but still
faster than 2.0 ever was).

--Stephen

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