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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:4474 comp.os.linux.misc:31977 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!merlin!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!udel!news.mathworks.com!news.ultranet.com!newsie.dmc.com!spdcc!merk!rmkhome!rmk From: rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly) Subject: Re: How fast? [was: ... slugish ...] Organization: The Man With Ten Cats Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc References: <1994Nov28.194617.18912@system9.unisys.com> <3bf6ou$pm7@wup-gate.wup.de> <D0C929.1r2@info.swan.ac.uk> Message-ID: <9412132322.38@rmkhome.com> Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Date: Wed, 14 Dec 1994 04:22:39 GMT Lines: 22 Alan Cox (iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk) wrote: : In article <3bf6ou$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. As long as both operating systems are using the same size buffer cache. :-) And my question for today: Why did some brain-damaged individual start up a usenet linux hierarchy and create >54 new groups in it? -- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.com rmk@bedford.progress.com rmk@tencats.tiac.net