From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 6 19:20:33 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id TAA03623 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 6 Feb 1995 19:20:33 -0800 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA03617; Mon, 6 Feb 1995 19:20:23 -0800 Received: from jsdinc.root.com (uucp@localhost) by Root.COM (8.6.8/8.6.5) with UUCP id TAA27875; Mon, 6 Feb 1995 19:20:09 -0800 Received: (root@localhost) by jsdinc.root.com (8.6.9/8.6.5) id VAA01165; Mon, 6 Feb 1995 21:00:45 -0500 From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199502070200.VAA01165@jsdinc.root.com> Subject: Re: sup: Ok, I'm gonna do it. To: freefall.cdrom.com!owner-freebsd-hackers@implode.root.com (Wankle Rotary Engine) Date: Mon, 6 Feb 1995 21:00:44 -0500 (EST) Cc: peter@bonkers.taronga.com, syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, jcd@crab.xinside.com In-Reply-To: <199502060718.CAA00787@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> from "Wankle Rotary Engine" at Feb 6, 95 02:18:27 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1053 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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