Re: 2.2.0-pre4 is slow and pre4-ac1 is broken =(

Kalle Andersson (kalle.andersson@mbox303.swipnet.se)
Tue, 5 Jan 1999 05:25:35 +0100 (CET)


On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

> > It seems that the memory management in pre4 is pretty slow, I can hardly
> > do anything in X if I'm burning a cd at the same time. (I can't recall
> > having that problem with pre3, although I didn't have much time testing
> > it...). According to my little wmaker app that checks memory and swap
>
> pre4 dies horribly if you are paging and have heavily I/O bound processes
> running.

I'm afraid the same goes for pre4-ac1... cdparanoia and cdrecord makes it
swap much more then previous kernels did, 131-ac series have been the best
for me, ie the sct stuff..

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Kalle Andersson
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