On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 12:23:02PM -0400, Derek Glidden wrote:
>
> I've kicked up a bit of an ant's nest on LKML about the state of VM/swap
> under 2.4. If you were at the dinner with Maddog, I ranted about this
> for a bit and you might remember some of the problems. I finally sat
> down to do some actual tests against the 2.4 VM subsystem and came up
> with some really ridiculous results. You might find this interesting
> reading. (and then again, you may not...)
>
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=99178003800001&w=2&r=1
>
What's most interesting to me is the attitude you mentioned: "Oh, then
just get more swap!". I paged through all the messages in this thread,
and I'm amazed at the lack of substantive, helpful, realistic comment on
the issue. Even Alan Cox just added more noise. To be fair, someone
posted a patch, and there were a couple of other helpful emails. But for
the most part, it was bickering based on misunderstanding. And someone
even characterized the 2.4 kernel as unstable branch. Ahem? I thought
that's what the odd numbered (2.3, 2.5) were supposed to be.
Paul
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