> 2.3.99pre7-pre2 was fine, but pre7-pre4, -pre6, pre8 release,
> and pre9-pre1 were unusuable to me. Massive swapping and
> high load when running anything non-trivial.
>
> patching to Andreas classzone-28 and lfs-lock-8 really works
> well here. Performance seems to be at least as good as the
> older 2.3.99's and is probably quite a bit better.
>
> It's survived all the beatings I've given it so far.
I have to second that. I have yet to collect hard data, but the feel of
the system is incredibly smooth. A lot better than 2.2.14, even. Doing a
dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/zeros bs=1048576 count=512 while recompiling all
of KDE2 in the background didn't even cause the mouse to jitter. On
vanilla pre8, the dd alone rendered the system unusable.
This is on a Dell Inspiron 7500VT, PIII-450, 256MB, IDE disk.
Congratulations to everyone involved.
Daniel.
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