From: Per Buer <perbu@linpro.no>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4: mylex and > 2GB RAM
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 14:21:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1071062497.32441.20.camel@netstat.linpro.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0312090830270.1289-100000@logos.cnet>
Marcelo,
On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 11:31, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>
> You may want to give 2.4.23 a try.
>
> The VM has been changed to balance the memory in a "saner" way wrt
> highmem.
All I can say is that it is somewhat better - but far from good. When
writing intensively prosesses more or less lock up when we run out of
Lowmem.
2.4.23 seems to recover from this state faster then 2.4.22 - but I cant
really quantify this in any way.
--
There are only 10 different kinds of people in the world,
those who understand binary, and those who don't.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-10 13:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-08 15:24 2.4: mylex and > 2GB RAM Per Buer
2003-12-08 15:36 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-08 15:54 ` Per Buer
2003-12-08 16:22 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-08 20:15 ` Per Andreas Buer
2003-12-08 20:22 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-08 21:01 ` Per Andreas Buer
2003-12-08 21:02 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-08 21:25 ` Per Andreas Buer
2003-12-08 21:36 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-09 10:31 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-12-10 13:21 ` Per Buer [this message]
2003-12-08 20:40 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
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2003-12-08 15:58 Hank Leininger
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