>From: Myrdraal <myrdraal@jackalz.dyn.ml.org>
>Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:27:11 -0500
>Subject: Re: 2.1.89 broken?
>
>On Mon, Mar 09, 1998 at 02:07:47PM -0500, Scott Lampert wrote:
>Hi,
>> On 09-Mar-98 Myrdraal wrote:
>> > For what it's worth, it's working perfectly on my Cyrix 586/100.
>> It works for me on my 233MMX, however it seems to be far less
>> efficient than prior kernels when it comes to memory handling. It doesn't
>> seem to want to give up much memory from the disk cache, prefering to
>> stick stuff in swap first. At least those are my observations watching
>> the disk thrash with xosview running.
>Yeah, I've noticed that everything seems to completetly stop when it's
>swapping, interactive performance is worse when swapping it seems.
> -Myrdraal
Here, it seems to want to do alot of buffering, and on my SCSI-1 1Gb
drive, which is slow, I run out of memory, and the computer comes to a
near halt, this happens on a read or write too/from that particular drive,
2.1.88 never done this.
Might be a stupid question, but is there anyway to force the kernel to
flush all buffers? & limit size of buffers?
The difference between genius and stupidity
is that genius has it's limits.
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