2000-11-20 17:57:50

by Steven_Snyder

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Subject: Any advantage to kernel 2.4 in low-end system?



Hello.

In reading about the cool new features of Linux v2.4, most of the
improvements/changes seem to relate to high-end systems. Would users of low-end
systems (386/486, low memory, etc.) be advised to stay with kernel v2.2.x or is
v2.4.x the way to go for these systems as well?

Thank you.



2000-11-20 18:01:10

by Rik van Riel

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Subject: Re: Any advantage to kernel 2.4 in low-end system?

On Mon, 20 Nov 2000 [email protected] wrote:

> In reading about the cool new features of Linux v2.4, most of
> the improvements/changes seem to relate to high-end systems.
> Would users of low-end systems (386/486, low memory, etc.) be
> advised to stay with kernel v2.2.x or is v2.4.x the way to go
> for these systems as well?

The memory management in 2.4 should be quite a bit
better for systems where the working set size is
more than a tiny fraction of system memory ;)

Rik
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