Thrashing WITHOUT swap.

2001-06-24 Thread Maciej Zenczykowski
is not dead it is just very slow [like the entire system, I can watch top refresh the screen in line by line mode...] Any help would be appreciated... Maciej Zenczykowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body

Re: Break 2.4 VM in five easy steps

2001-06-11 Thread Maciej Zenczykowski
On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Pavel Machek wrote: > That modulo is likely slower than dereference. > > > + if (count % 256 == 0) { You are forgetting that this case should be converted to and 255 or a plain byte reference by any optimizing compiler - and gcc surely is, on x86 this code can b

Re: temperature standard - global config option?

2001-06-06 Thread Maciej Zenczykowski
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Kipp Cannon wrote: > If the kernel tells me the temperature is 1 (one) what should that mean? > If it's spitting out 0.1* as people are claiming the > ACPI stuff does then 1 means 10 kelvin or 1 dekakelvin, not a > > decikelvin