23 Dec
2021
23 Dec
'21
5:19 p.m.
On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 10:02:40AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
Seems like a patch might be nice.
I had
forgotten about control-t - does anything modern still do that
FreeBSD does. It's my biggest annoyance with Linux that it doesn't. 100k for a process that likely needed 500k to 1MB
would indeed be swapping
its brains out. So while tha vax could do I/O 10 times faster than a Z80 of
the era and run maybe 5 times faster, all that was lost when you started
thrashing because you can't keep your working set in memory.
Yeah, exactly. A z80 with floppies seems slower, and was much slower
than a VAX to yourself, but I very rarely experienced that. 40 students
at 4am and the load average was through the roof? No thanks, I'll take
the predictable speed of my CP/M machine over the VAX any day. It wasn't
that slow, I got a lot of work done on it.
--lm