[LUAU] the real 2.2.0

[Jeffery Wong]

Well, I havn't downloaded the new kernel yet, but its my understanding
that 2.2.0 defaults to SMP support, and thats what causes huge kernel
sizes.  Of course I could be wrong.  I'll probably grab the new kernel
when I get home tonight and check it out.

Jeff

On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 bbraun at sparcy.synack.net wrote:

> 
> On Monday, Jan 1999 at 21:12:44 Chris Wong wrote: 
>  | 
>  | Just to let you folks know.. http://www.hoku.net/download/kernel has it.
>  | 
>  | :)
>  | 
>  | Downloading and compiling mine. I don't think I'll install it tho'.
> 
>  Just like compiling new kernels?  =)
> 
>  It's too bad such bloat has hit the kernel.  On my poor little ISA
>  only P100, my kernel has grown from 285k compressed to 635k compressed.
>  I've noticed a significant performance hit on this machine as well.
>  Only 24meg ram could account for it.
> 
>  On my "normal" tyan mb P166 w/96meg ram I havn't noticed much difference
>  in performance though.
> 
>  I'd be interested in other people's reports on performance on "low end"
>  machines...
>  Obviously with something like a dual proc 450 performance hits won't
>  be all that noticable.  Prolly better on the dual procs.
> 
>  Rob
>