Re: Strange interrupt behaviour

Magnus Redin (redin@signum.se)
Wed, 15 Jul 1998 09:34:46 +0200


Alex Buell:
> I'm now finding that after about 7 days' of uptime, this Linux box
> [P75 + 16MB] actually gets slower than Win95. I'm not kidding. It's
> getting to the point where I am contemplating dumping 2.1.x and
> going back to 2.0.35.

Gerhard Mack
> I'd like to see you compare that to a 95 machine that's been up 7
> days.

That is a lousy excuse. A good OS should be able to stay up for months
or years regardless of memory size as long as it was able to
boot. Think mainframe uptime, not toy-os uptime. Its buggy as long as
its performance deteriorates over time.

Regards,

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