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Re: Rik van Riel's VM patch

To: John Levon <moz@compsoc.man.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Rik van Riel's VM patch
From: Bill Huey <billh@gnuppy.monkey.org>
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 17:10:05 -0700 (PDT)
CC: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0009021834220.21467-100000@mrbusy.compsoc.man.ac.uk>"from John Levon at Sep 2, 2000 06:39:22 pm"
Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org

John,

> Hi, this is just a short no-statistics testimony that Rik's VM patch
> to test8-pre1 seems much improved over test7. I have a UP P200 with 40Mb,
> and previously running KDE2 + mozilla was totally unusable. 

> With the patch, things run much more smoothly. Interactive feel seems
> better, and I don't have "swapping holidays" any more.
 
> Heavily stressing it by g++ is better as well... 
> 
> just a data point,
> john

Yes, it kicks butt and it finally (just about) removes the final
Linux kernel showstopper for recent kernels. ;-)

I did a GNOME + KDE2 + c++ compile since I've been doing port work
and I have similar experiences.

bill

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