Cache persistence (Was: Re: not a desktop OS)

Romano Giannetti (romano@mail1.upco.es)
Mon, 30 Nov 1998 14:58:05 +0100

On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 11:19:11AM +0100, Romano Giannetti wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 11:57:15PM -0500, Rafal Wierzbicki wrote:
> >
> > The new swapping code in 2.1.x is not a good idea for desktop or single
> > user machines... Instead of expected performance increase it actually
> > decreases the performance of my home machine.
>
> What kernel version? I am working with 2.1.130 here since nine o'clock
> (it's eleven twenty) and have 0 byte of swap used.
>
> Bye,
> Romano

Spoken too fast.
After rm -rf kernel tree, tar xvf it, and patching, I have:
(0)pern:~% free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 62900 59048 3852 13092 4120 41672
-/+ buffers/cache: 13256 49644
Swap: 128484 7604 120880

and the buffer cache is *really* persistent (I start netscape and it is
swapping like mad).

Bye,
Romano

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Romano Giannetti, Professor  -  Univ. Pontificia Comillas (Madrid, Spain)
Electronic Engineer - phone +34 915 422 800 ext 2410  fax +34 915 596 569


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