Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 15:19:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 15:19:25 -0500 Received: from news.cistron.nl ([195.64.68.38]:7953 "EHLO ncc1701.cistron.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 15:18:27 -0500 From: miquels@cistron-office.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg) Subject: Re: Linux 2.2 and 2.4 VM systems analysed Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 20:18:26 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Cistron Internet Services B.V. Lines: 16 Message-ID: <9rsami$iq1$3@ncc1701.cistron.net> In-Reply-To: <3BE1A790.25B7E6F5@illusionary.com> X-Trace: ncc1701.cistron.net 1004645906 19265 195.64.65.67 (1 Nov 2001 20:18:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@cistron.nl X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test75 (Feb 13, 2001) Originator: miquels@cistron-office.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg) To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In article <3BE1A790.25B7E6F5@illusionary.com>, Derek Glidden wrote: >For overall end-user experience, 2.2 still "feels" better overall with >better interactive responsiveness under a varying set of loads even >though 2.4 really is faster at doing the actual work. Well today I switched my workstation (128 MB RAM, 256 MB swap) over from 2.2.19 to 2.4.14-pre6. With mozilla, netscape, postgres, perl, apache, X, gnome running I'm usually ~80 MB into swap. With 2.2.19 you really don't want to do this. It's *slow*. Early 2.4.x, ditto. But under 2.4.14-pre6, it flies. I'm happy. Mike. -- "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former" -- Albert Einstein. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/