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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:4332 comp.os.linux.misc:31132 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!caen!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!utnut!torn!uunet.ca!uunet.ca!wildcan!alexd From: alexd@system9.unisys.com (Alex Dumitru) Subject: Re: How fast? [was: ... slugish ...] Message-ID: <1994Dec6.205757.20950@system9.unisys.com> Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Organization: Unisys GIS X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <1994Nov28.194617.18912@system9.unisys.com> <3bf6ou$pm7@wup-gate.wup.de> Date: Tue, 6 Dec 1994 20:57:57 GMT Lines: 14 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 ... 4 Mb is a very usefull configuration. Besides, all the docs I've seen claim that the OS'es install and run with this and a 386SX. Paging and swaping a lot would detect differences in the VM stuff? cheers alex