Re: 2.1.79 success
Benjamin LaHaise (kernel@kvack.org)
Tue, 13 Jan 1998 17:07:55 -0500 (EST)
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, David Burrows wrote:
...
> Swap performance seems to have increased drastically, or I might be just
> imagining things. But I have X, Netscape, BitchX loaded as well as nfsd,
> smbd nmbd, rc5 cracking client, crond and numerous other daemons. And the
> system is still running quite speedily. The mouse moves smoothly while
> netscape is loading, whereas before it certainly did not. I'm impressed
> anyway. :)
...
Thank Stephen Tweedie for that - he's done a beautiful job of replacing
the old swap-cache mechanism with a mechanism using the page cache
instead.
-ben