UP 2.1.94 works quite well: (w/ MTRR, SB, swapping)

Benjamin Redelings I (bredelin@UCSD.Edu)
Thu, 09 Apr 1998 01:12:22 -0700

Ok, I've just downloaded 2.1.94 and tested its performance on swapping
ande stuff. Firstly, unlike 2.1.93, it DOES boot, which is good ;) The
interactive performance is pretty good for recent kernels... programs
seem to run just as quickly when they are (probably) "swapped" out as
not. I used out 20Mb of a 32 Mb swap partition (I have 64Mb RAM) and
netscape 4.05 still works at zippingly high speed :)
SB works, CD audio works.... (I don't have sb as a module). Also, the
CONFIG_SERIAL_ECHO is now turned off by default, so no more REALLY SLOW
kernel messages will appear and pause your system if you change the CD.
Seems to work quite well overall.

Only possible problem is that sometimes the mouse movement gets a bit
jerky with disk activity (presumably from the mm/vm subsystem)....which
shows that I've gotten down to wish-list items ;)
Oh yeah, and the compile-time warnings from egcs are now gone.

Thanks for a great kernel!
-BenRI

UP
PPro 166
egcs 98-03-15
binutils 2.8.1.0.23-1
glibc 2.0.7 pre1-4
2.1.94 + mtrr patch

64MB Ram
32Mb swap.

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