2.2.14 feels slow and non-interactive.

[Rik van Riel]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Jorgen Skjaanes wrote:
> 
> >the box is just trying to do too much in too litle memory. So using it as a
> >desktop isn't fun anymore. 
> 
> Also desktop will like to avoid swapin/swaouts. In a desktop usage
> you still have to grab TV and read mailing lists.

2.2.15pre4 includes my second chance page replacement trick,
this should reduce the number of page faults a bit and make
it possible to run the same load a bit better.

I'm now running some heavy Java demos (suitably niced) which
bring my 64M box 60M into swap with quite a bit of swap I/O
going on. The system responsiveness is still snappy and my
mp3 hasn't skipped once...

regards,

Rik
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