Still waiting for swap prefetch [LWN.net]

Still waiting for swap prefetch

Posted Jul 26, 2007 13:22 UTC (Thu) by cate (subscriber, #1359)
In reply to: Still waiting for swap prefetch by elanthis
Parent article: Still waiting for swap prefetch

_Linux_ has been getting worse, or the shit that people use on their systems is getting worse?

Check the size of a Linux kernel, and you will see that the is a bigger increment (in percent) in 5 years than the memory used by mozilla. We have more memory, so we can afford to use it more inefficiently.

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Still waiting for swap prefetch

Posted Jul 26, 2007 16:19 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

I was barely able to boot Linux on 2MB system back then. Today I need 8Mb for that. Netscape was quite useful on 12MB Linux system (8MB was too slow), today you can barely even start Firefox on 48MB system. Huge size of Linux kernel in real life is mostly page tables so I think Linux and Firefox grew in unison...

Still waiting for swap prefetch

Posted Jul 30, 2007 8:35 UTC (Mon) by gouyou (subscriber, #30290) [Link]

We have more memory
Not really take a look at the OLPC or at the new development on the embeded device scene (Nokia N770/N800, OpenMoko) ...

Still waiting for swap prefetch

Posted Aug 3, 2007 4:04 UTC (Fri) by bersl2 (guest, #34928) [Link]

"We have more memory, so we can afford to use it more inefficiently."

That's badly worded. It would be more correct to say that memory efficiency has been sacrificed for time efficiency.