Re: 2.4.0-ac9 works, but slower and swappier

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Mark Orr wrote:

> 
> I've been running 2.4.0-ac9 for a day and a half now.
> 
> I have pretty low-end hardware (Pentium 1/ 100MHz, 16Mb RAM,
> 17Mb swap)  and it really seems to bog down with anything
> heavy in memory.    Netscape seems to really drag, and any
> Java applets I encounter positively crawl -- you can see
> the individual widgets being drawn.

Could you please try this patch:

http://bazar.conectiva.com.br/~marcelo/patches/v2.4/2.4.1pre3/try_to_free_pages-3.patch

and report results?

Thanks