Re: Strange interrupt behaviour

Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Wed, 15 Jul 1998 00:00:30 +0200 (CEST)


On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Alex Buell wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Anyway, looking at the table it is fairly obvious why machines with much
> > memory don't tend to have problems..
>
> Yes, precisely. From your figures, 64MB machines are just right for 2.1.x
> kernels at the moment which is quite reasonable, but if we could get this
> fixed for 8MB boxes - 46% attrition rate isn't good - [which most 386s
> usually have], then I think everyone would be a lot happier with that.
>
> I don't know if there are anyone still using 4MB boxes with 2.1.x kernels
> - anyone else care to speak up?

I'm running Linux/m68k 2.1.108 on an Amiga 4000/040 with 12 MB RAM. The machine
serves as a mail and web server. After 8 days of uptime it gets terribly slow
due to memory leaks, so I reboot.

Greetings,

Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium

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