>>>>> On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 00:17:22 -0400 (EDT), Dan Swartzendruber
>>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
Dan> On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Nigel & Michelle Cunningham wrote:
>> I've noticed the same problems (Duron 700, 128MB RAM) since I switched to
>> the 2.4 series kernels. I understand from a little reading that the 2.4
>> kernels are more aggressive in their use of swap, and that is affecting
>> speed. I therefore tried turning off swap space once or twice and this
>> seemed to make a difference. Perhaps you might try this too? I think
>> they're planning more changes to improve the situation.
Dan> you may be on to something here. i did 'swapoff -a' and then
Dan> launched an fwin session. i need more time to be sure, but i ran
Dan> quicken, eudora, quicken again, hearts, IE5.5, and gravity, and
Dan> noticed no stalls. mike, is there any chance that the memory
Dan> used for win4lin for win98 RAM is allocated in such a way as to
Dan> be swapped out preferentially to other RAM?
I would like to ask a question about the "slowness problem" which
started all of this. I still think that the slowness is because
win4lin is swapped out to disk, and has to be paged back in. A
question for the person with the problem (sorry, I don't pay enough
attention to remember who it was):
When you experience this problem (specifically, the problem where you
go back to a win4lin session and the _first_ action you perform - right
click the mouse I think you mentioned - takes a long time to be acted
upon), how is the speed for subsequent actions? Are they faster or
slower than the first (slow) action? Do things continually get
faster, or do they move right up to normal (whatever _that_ is! :-)
speed?
The reason I ask this question is because of my 'win4lin is swapped
out theory'. If my theory is correct, the first action should take
for_ever_ (relatively speaking of course), and then every action after
that should be all back to regular speed. If the first action is
slow, and the others ones gradually ramp up to normal, then I am
willing to say that my simple 'win4lin is swapped out theory' needs
some, shall we say, 'reworking'.
have fun,
rob
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