On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Gerd wrote about, Re: New AX.25 and newest kernel 2.2.14: first
test results:
> Hello Ray, hello all,
>
>
> The information comes from several german computer magazines stating that you
> need at least 64 MB physical RAM in order to get a benefit of the new
> kernel's memory management features.
>
> > I experienced a significant improvment in performance for some operations
> > after upgrading to a 2.2 kernel.
> >
> > I have run 2.2 kernels on 486sx25s with 16MB of RAM very successfully.
>
> And is there also a performance improvement visible? Even if someone could
> assure me that these kernels do not slow down older hardware I would be glad.
> Then, I could even use a Pentium 133 (w/o MMX) with 32 MB RAM that I
> assembled from spare parts with Linux 2.2.14 - that would be not bad at all.
>
> But, a 386 DX 40 with 8 MB should rather stick to 2.0.38, shouldn't it?
If it works why break it, at our local radio club we have an old 386/33/sx
with 6 megs of ram running a 2.3.x kernel. The machine itself does not do
much work, it serves as awork stn, during contests, it runs multiple logins
and runs an ax25/bpq/netrom combination well via ethernet.
No it does not do heavy networking, no it does not have memory problems, or
at least not in the 3 or 4 days it runs before, during and after a contest.
>
> Cheers, 73
>
> Gerd
>
>
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