On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 08:18:39PM +0300, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: > (I have an old zipslack > installation on a 486 laptop, but I'd need to upgrade everything starting > from libtool and am to lazy to start setting up ppp or a floppy disk rally.)
Ok, I nevertheless set up getty and did some good old time zmodem transfers at 9600bps (best the poor thing could handle) and compiled latest Ion on the 486/25 8MB laptop. As expected it takes some time for Ion to read all the configuration files at startup, but after that it's as fast as anything on an eight megabytes and constantly swapping at less than 1MB/sec transfer rate machine. There's no noticeable "Lua slowdown" anywhere else, and the startup time could be improved a little by using precompiled configuration files, as you so despised. But, hey, it's a poor 486, one had to wait for almost anything on such a machine! Running ion-completefile does take quite a lot of time, though and as indicated by top ion-completefile is indeed eating most of the CPU time. And it takes some time to run any binary on such a machine as has to make some space for it and find it from a slow hd. But the old "stable" Ion would be blocked altogether during this operation while the devel branch can be used normally while waiting for the completions. -- Tuomo
