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Date:      Mon, 31 Mar 1997 18:56:02 -0500
From:      dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch), hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 2.2R real slow with 8 meg
Message-ID:  <3.0.32.19970331185559.00b6b100@etinc.com>

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At 10:27 PM 3/31/97 +0200, J Wunsch wrote:
>As dennis wrote:
>
>> >Hi Dennis. You need more memory!
>
>> I'll bet I do also...but the question is WHY?
>
>Your experience is surprising.  A friend of mine recently changed to
>3.0-some-time-ago-almost-2.2, from a 2.1R system.  He reported me that
>the system now feels faster, this is with 8 MB RAM and X11.
>


Hmmm...is more swap required, or maybe the generic kernel has
more pithy settings than before...I haven't really examined it yet?

Maybe its the IDE driver?

Dennis


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