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From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: How fast? [was: ... slugish ...]
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In article <3bf6ou$pm7@wup-gate.wup.de> andreas@wup.de (Andreas Klemm) writes:
>What strikes me most are the 4 MB RAM. With that equipement I normally
>wouldn't do a benchmark, since you aren't sure if swapping or paging
>(depends on the amount of daemon programs that are executed when going
>into multiuser mode) give strabge results ...

But many many Linux people run well tuned 386 systems with 4Mb of RAM, and
often very slow CPU's (SX/25 etc). So a 4Mb benchmark is useful, as is an
8Mb benchmark.

Alan
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