Re: 2.1.89 broken?

Nicholas J. Leon (nicholas@binary9.net)
Tue, 10 Mar 1998 02:48:11 -0500 (EST)

# > It works for me on my 233MMX, however it seems to be far less
# > efficient than prior kernels when it comes to memory handling. It doesn't
# > seem to want to give up much memory from the disk cache, prefering to
# Yeah, I've noticed that everything seems to completetly stop when it's
# swapping, interactive performance is worse when swapping it seems.

And I discovered today that doing a

find /usr/src/linux -type f -exec grep -il 'entered promis' {} \;

totally destroyed interactive performance, even when trying to kill the
process (it took well over 15 seconds to respond to my ^Z).
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simple is elegant mrnick.binary9.net nicholas@binary9.net
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