On Mon, 25 Jan 1999 21:49:29 +0100, "Dr. Werner Fink" <werner@suse.de>
said:
> Ok its a bit better than a single PII 400 MHz :-)
> ... with less than 64MB the break downs are going to be the common state
> whereas with 128MB the system is usable. Nevertheless whenever both make
> loops taking the filesystem tree at the same time, the system performance
> slows down dramatically (a `break down').
Not for me. That's probably just the advantage of having swap on a
separate disk, but I've got both a "find /" and a "wc /usr/bin/*"
running right now, and interactive performance is not noticeably
degraded on 2.2.0-release with 64MB (and that is with two active users
on the box right now). Concurrent filesystem and swap IO on the same
spindle is always going to suck.
--Stephen
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