I just downloaded and compiled the latest 2.3.99-pre9 and I have to say
I'm thoroughly impressed with the VM improvements which have been made.
The last kernel I tried, 2.3.99-pre6 or so, was really, really bad so I
kind of waited awhile for things to get better. They certainly have!
My machine here is a AMD K6II, 400Mhz, on an Asus P5A board, with 128MB
or ram.
I had switched from 2.3.99-pre6 to 2.2.15 for awhile.... The boot up time
in 2.3.99-pre9 is significantly less than that of 2.2.15.
I did notice the following on bootup however... Not sure if it's of any
consequence or not.
....
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
kmem_create: Poisoning requested, but con given - bdev_cache
Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
kmem_create: Poisoning requested, but con given - inode_cache
....
Then farther down....
....
isapnp: Scanning for Pnp cards...
isapnp: Calling quirk for 01:00
ISAPnP: SB audio device quirk - increasing port range
isapnp: Card 'Creative SB16 PnP'
isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.3
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
kmem_create: Poisoning requested, but con given - skbuff_head_cache
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
.....
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Brent M. Smith, <smitten@nextreality.net>
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