Date: Mon, 6 Feb 1995 21:00:44 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@jsdinc.root.com> To: freefall.cdrom.com!owner-freebsd-hackers@implode.root.com (Wankle Rotary Engine) Cc: peter@bonkers.taronga.com, syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, jcd@crab.xinside.com Subject: Re: sup: Ok, I'm gonna do it. Message-ID: <199502070200.VAA01165@jsdinc.root.com> In-Reply-To: <199502060718.CAA00787@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> from "Wankle Rotary Engine" at Feb 6, 95 02:18:27 am
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> > This does not bode well for me either, because my home machine is > a 386sx/16Mhz system with 4 megs of RAM. I wouldn't mind sticking with > 1.1.5.1 for a while, but there's a bug in the VM system somewhere > that causes it to consume swap space and never give it back, which > forces me to reboot the machine every few days. I figure I'm going to > haul it into work one day after 2.1-Release comes out and upgrade it. > I only hope I don't go mad trying. > > -Bill > For months, I had thought that all of the problems with swap space were only collapse problems. And then, found that the swap pager itself had a leak!!! 2.0 had some paging performance problems, but 2.1 is alot better. You will like 2.1 much more than 2.0 regarding paging performance and swap leaks. After davidg beating on me telling me that 2.0 wasn't as good as it could get, he convinced me to work with him on the pageout daemon again. He and I spent well over 2 weeks on it and now it is much better (he happened to be right this time :-) ). John dyson@root.com
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