On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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>
> Note that there are very few people who are testing interactive feel. I'd
> be happier with more people giving more subjective comments on how the
> system feels under heavy memory load.
>
> The only feedback I have so far says that pre-7 is much better than any of
> the pre-6 versions, but I'd be happier with more coverage depth and more
> comments from people in different circumstances. For example, what does it
> feel like when you're paging heavily and doing a "find" at the same time
> on a 16M machine?
>
> I know this is harder than just trying to determine the throughput of
> something, but the pre-6 thing certainly showed how dangerous it was to
> just look at numbers.
>
> Linus
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