Re: RFC: design for new VM

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 7 Aug 2000 13:03:32 +0100 (BST)


> A little question. AFAIK Linux needs less memory than FreeBSD. The new

It depends what you are doing. Espeically with newer BSD

> FreeBSD like VM will casue Linux won't work on little machines which
> uses Linux at our Univ because they're too powerless for running FreeBSD
> (the pervious sysadm ran FreeBSD everywhere and only that machines couldn't
> run FreeBSD as fast as Linux).

The VM changes will make the small boxes run faster if done right. At least
page aging worked right on 2.0 !

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