Re: efficacy of Linux w/o swap

From: Kasper Dupont (kasperd_at_daimi.au.dk)
Date: 05/16/05

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    Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 21:10:11 +0200

    phil-news-nospam@ipal.net wrote:
    >
    > When I was in tty1 and pressed Alt-F2
    > to go to tty2, it would pause and not switch for quite some time, then
    > evetually complete the switch. Worst case event took 2.5 minutes.

    I don't recall ever seeing switches between
    text terminals delayed unless I had disabled
    the keyboard interrupt.

    Did you notice any indication on whether the
    kernel had actually processed the keypress? 

    -- 
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