From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 17 00:56:12 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA27294 for current-outgoing; Wed, 17 May 1995 00:56:12 -0700 Received: from bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au (bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au [130.102.2.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id AAA27286 for ; Wed, 17 May 1995 00:56:11 -0700 Received: from cc.uq.oz.au by bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au id <16835-0@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au>; Wed, 17 May 1995 17:54:36 +1000 Received: from netfl15a.devetir.qld.gov.au by pandora.devetir.qld.gov.au (8.6.10/DEVETIR-E0.3a) with ESMTP id RAA15079 for ; Wed, 17 May 1995 17:58:21 +1000 Received: from localhost by netfl15a.devetir.qld.gov.au (8.6.8.1/DEVETIR-0.1) id HAA04081 for ; Wed, 17 May 1995 07:55:18 GMT Message-Id: <199505170755.HAA04081@netfl15a.devetir.qld.gov.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6 4/21/95 To: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Some speedups noticed Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 17:55:17 +1000 From: Stephen Hocking Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On my memory deprived machine, I've noticed a slight change (for the better!) in the way interactive processes are being handled during times of heavy mem. usage by other processes. E.G. a make world is in progress (and has been for the past 24 hours!) and I start typing at a shell prompt. Once the shell is swapped back in, it continues to respond quite well. Even small pauses between commands don't seem to be seen as an excuse to push it out to swap again. My memory suggests that this was not always the case. Some of the commit messages I've seen for the vm system suggest that some enhancement has been taking place, so I'll blame them. Stephen I do not speak for the Worker's Compensation Board of Queensland - They don't pay me enough for that!