Re: memory handling in pre5/pre6

From: Lech Szychowski (lech.szychowski@pse.pl)
Date: Tue Apr 18 2000 - 04:03:47 EST


> There is a big performance hit...
> so big that it could take from 10 to 20 second to open a terminal...
> Execution of whatever file on disk is extremely slow, and it seem
> that data are cached but overwritten really little time after being so.

Oh, one more thing: rebooting takes very long, up to 90 seconds or
so. My guess is swapoff takes long. It does when executed manually,
plus it spits out "Undead VM entry" from time to time.

-- 
	Leszek.

-- lech7@pse.pl 2:480/33.7 -- REAL programmers use INTEGERS -- -- speaking just for myself...

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