From: trussell@cwis.unomaha.edu (Tim Russell) Subject: Re: .97 (new buffer allocation code) Date: 2 Aug 1992 23:02:00 GMT
hedrick@dumas.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) writes:
>danielce@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Daniel AMP Carosone) writes:
>>But, there *is* a problem. The whole system is *much* slower. Screen
>I'll bet the problem is the new buffer code. It allocates file system
[...]
>I'm willing to bet that
>on a 3MB machine, you end up with more buffers than before. This
>would slow things down, because it would force you into paging. I
Sounds like a reasonable hypothesis. I have a 16 Meg 386/33 and didn't
see any performance hit to speak of, but the system is allocating quite a
few more buffers.