2.2.14 feels slow and non-interactive.

[Mike A. Harris]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Bernard Wei wrote:

>> Anyone else experience loss of interactivity and slowdowns on
>> 2.2.14?
>> 
>
>Yes, when I only using a fraction of my installed memory :c)
>
>Make sure you are running with all your physical memory detected.
>For a time I was running with only 1/4 of my physical memory.  But
>I have a total of 256MB, so it took me a long time to realize that 
>I didn't use the full 256MB.  

No, thats definitely not the problem either.  I have 96Mb of RAM
in my system - 64Mb of which is cached and 32Mb uncached.

4 root en asdf:/etc# cat /proc/meminfo
        total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
Mem:  98168832 90501120  7667712 26800128 17293312 29749248
Swap: 115077120 18804736 96272384
MemTotal:     95868 kB
MemFree:       7488 kB
MemShared:    26172 kB
Buffers:      16888 kB
Cached:       29052 kB
SwapTotal:   112380 kB
SwapFree:     94016 kB

4 root en asdf:/etc# cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.2.14-1 (root en asdf.capslock.lan) (gcc version
egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Wed Jan 5
09:05:10 EST 2000


Actually, my system runs *faster* with 64Mb of RAM than it does
with 96Mb.  The 32Mb of uncached RAM slows things down
noticeably, but that happens regardless of the kernel I use, or
OS for that matter.  The slowdowns are definitely not memory
related.

Thanks for the idea though.
TTYL

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