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Re: 1.1 memory management issue ??



On Tue, 31 Dec 1996 tomk@westgac3.dragon.com wrote:

> > > > Thank heavens! 1.1 had terrible memory management. 1.2 (REX) is _much_ 
> > > > better. 
> > > The memory management issue mentioned here with 1.1 may explain some
> > > slowness with my (1.1) machines. 
> > I do not get the point! Memory management is the job of the kernel.
> > How does it depend on the distribution?

> Well, if you upgrade your system as a distribution, rather than piece-meal,
> on-the-fly, method (via dftp), it sure does make sense that a "distribution"
> influences memory management issues. I choose to wait until a stable
> distribution has been declared and upgrade my entire system in one sitting.
> That way, I _know_ that all the necessary packages have been upgraded. 
> Unlike another gentleman on this list who upgraded the kernel, but did not 
> upgrade the libc5 module and could not understand why his machine was slow. 8-)

Sorry I still do not get the point. Debian 1.1 never seemed to be slow to
me compared to any other distribution. Of course any broken setup you
might get by unstable/partial updates might slow down your machine to any
degree. But this still means that contradictionary to the above statement
1.1 was not slow.

Yours
 -- martin

// Martin Konold, Muenzgasse 7, 72070 Tuebingen, Germany  // 
// Email: konold@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de              // 
       Linux - because reboots are for hardware upgrades 
       -- Edwin Huffstutler <ehuff@sedona.intel.com> -- 

   Just go ahead and write your own multitasking multiuser os !
                 Worked for me all the times.
                     -- Linus Torvalds --


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