Re: 2.1.91 swap performance: jerky.

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Fri, 27 Mar 1998 22:35:38 -0800 (PST)


On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>
> You are definitely on the right track.....

Good.

> Linux compile on 166 MHz Pentium Linux 2.1.91
> Buslogic SCSI
>
> Time: ~16 minutes
>
> Booting 2.1.90 from a floppy, same kernel, takes ~24 minutes.

Just out of interest, how much memory do you have? Also, can you give
numbers for doing the same thing under 2.0.33 just to sanity-check (2.1.90
was not necessarily very good in this regard, and getting better from bad
is not something to be too proud of ;)?

> Linux compile on 166 MHz dual Pentium SMP Linux 2.1.91
> Buslogic SCSI
>
> Total time: ~14 minutes
>
> Booting 2.1.90 from a floppy, same kernel, takes ~20 minutes.

Same questions, if at all possible..

Linus

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