From: David Ford <david@blue-labs.org>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Ongoing 2.4 VM suckage
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 18:47:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B6B29ED.2060808@blue-labs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0108031751590.11893-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva>
I'd rather cut myself on the bleeding edge than have my extremities
ripped off when my machine reaches critical mass :)
It's seriously frustrating to have important volatile work on your
desktop and have to sit back and wait two hours for "skill -9 <some
victim pid>" before you can use your machine again.
-d
Rik van Riel wrote:
>On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, David Ford wrote:
>
>>If it is that badly broken, isn't that sufficient criteria to justify
>>the patch?
>>
>
>It's not just a patch. Fixing this problem will require
>a major VM rewrite. A rewrite I really wasn't willing
>to make for 2.4.
>
>I'll start writing the thing, but I won't be aiming at
>getting it included in 2.4. I guess I could code it in
>such a way to give a drop-in replacement for people
>willing to cut themselves on the bleeding edge, though ;)
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-03 22:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-02 18:29 Ongoing 2.4 VM suckage Jeffrey W. Baker
2001-08-02 18:52 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-08-02 19:10 ` Jeffrey W. Baker
2001-08-02 19:54 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-08-02 20:10 ` Jeffrey W. Baker
2001-08-02 20:16 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-02 20:28 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-03 17:59 ` David Ford
2001-08-03 20:53 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-03 21:59 ` Mike Black
2001-08-03 22:08 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-04 1:06 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-08-03 23:58 ` [PATCH] Disable kswapd through proc (was Ongoing 2.4 VM suckage) Daniel Phillips
2001-08-04 7:21 ` Ongoing 2.4 VM suckage Stephen Satchell
2001-08-06 8:55 ` Helge Hafting
2001-08-06 16:37 ` Jeremy Linton
2001-08-07 7:51 ` David Weinehall
2001-08-03 22:47 ` David Ford [this message]
2001-08-02 21:01 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-08-02 21:11 ` Jeffrey W. Baker
2001-08-02 21:44 ` Jakob Østergaard
2001-08-02 21:52 ` Jeffrey W. Baker
2001-08-02 21:56 ` Miles Lane
2001-08-02 22:05 ` Jeffrey W. Baker
2001-08-02 22:07 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-02 22:17 ` Jeffrey W. Baker
2001-08-02 22:27 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-02 22:32 ` Jeffrey W. Baker
2001-08-02 22:56 ` BERECZ Szabolcs
2001-08-03 13:07 ` jlnance
2001-08-03 13:31 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-08-06 13:22 ` Luigi Genoni
2001-08-06 13:29 ` David S. Miller
2001-08-02 23:46 ` Ongoing 2.4 VM suckage pagemap_lru_lock Jeremy Linton
2001-08-02 22:15 ` Ongoing 2.4 VM suckage Pavel Zaitsev
2001-08-02 22:20 ` Jakob Østergaard
2001-08-03 12:04 ` Anders Peter Fugmann
2001-08-03 16:03 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-03 16:24 ` Anders Peter Fugmann
2001-08-03 21:24 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-03 22:00 ` Anders Peter Fugmann
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