Re: 2.4.9 VM/VMA subsystem works much better

From: Daniel Phillips (phillips@bonn-fries.net)
Date: Wed Aug 22 2001 - 22:18:29 EST

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On August 22, 2001 09:58 pm, Brad Chapman wrote:
> Everyone,
>
> Just a note: the VMA sanity patch which went in to 2.4.9
> has improved Mozilla's performance considerably. I did a rough
> calculation based on startup time and found that Mozilla started
> approximately 10%-12% faster on 2.4.9 then 2.4.8. Plus, I've
> found that swapping is actually starting to work again, although
> it still tends to stick at certain times.
>
> Great job everyone.

Make sure you have my SetPageReferenced patch in, swap is borked without
it.

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Daniel
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