On 12/13/13, Marc Espie <es...@nerim.net> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 02:10:49PM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 14:53, Marc Espie wrote: >> > On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 02:44:26PM +0100, Peter Hessler wrote: >> >> Using swap is a bug. Buy more ram. >> > ^^^ >> > >> > I run into bugs all the time... >> > >> > Memory: Real: 2785M/3694M act/tot Free: 4217M Cache: 550M Swap: >> > 900K/8384M >> >> 900k? That's only a tiny bug... > > I have bigger ones from time to time. I come from a time when it was normal > to use swap (SunOS + Xwindows *before* shared objects...), and when it was > "just" a normal slowdown. Heck, I remember running a dual-boot > OpenBSD/linux > box with 32MB of physical memory, where OpenBSD outperformed linux by > a huge margin in terms of responsiveness when it started hitting swap.
since we are all ruminating <G> ... I remember days I ran OS/2 on my 486dx2 with 4MB of RAM. It ran Window 3.x apps (e.g., MS Word 2.0) so much smoother than Windows on the same hardware. I should've kept that computer <sniff> --patrick > Did we get so complacent with memory that it's no longer the case ?...
