Re: 2.6.0 performance problems

[Bill Davidsen]

Samium Gromoff wrote:
> Reality sucks.
>
> People are ignorant enough to turn blind eye to obvious vm regressions.
>
> No developers run 64M boxens anymore...

Developers shound NOT be running slow machines, but they should be 
testing slow machines. I do my builds on a four way Xeon machine, and 
install on a slow machine for test.

If you look at some of the response testing I'm doing, it's one a 96MB 
p3-350, just for that reason. And I have a P5-133 I built but haven't 
really benchmarked yet, it has only 64MB. I think the place such slow 
machines are relevant is embedded, which is why I occasionally rant 
about locking in code to hide Athlon CPU bugs which just wastes space on 
unbroken machines.

I have a pile of 486 machines I want to run as firewalls, don't plan to 
do kernel builds on those, either :-(

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bill davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
  CTO TMR Associates, Inc
  Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
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