Re: 2.5.64-mm6

Felipe Alfaro Solana (felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org)
Thu, 13 Mar 2003 14:42:24 +0100

----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 03:26:15 -0800
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: 2.5.64-mm6

> . Added all of Russell King's PCMCIA changes. If anyone tests this on
> cardbus/PCMCIA machines please let us know.

Testing 2.5.64-mm6 on my NEC laptop, TI CardBus Bridge,
3Com 3c575. No problems yet ;-)

> This means that large cache-cold executables start significantly faster.
> Launching X11+KDE+mozilla goes from 23 seconds to 16. Starting OpenOffice
> seems to be 2x to 3x faster, and starting Konqueror maybe 3x faster too.
> Interesting.

I feel the system a little bit faster and more responsive. I've also set
max_timeslice to 50 to experiment a little more with interactive loads.

Thanks!

Felipe 

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