Re: [PATCH] Recent VM fiasco - fixed

Christoph Rohland
2000-05-11T11:12:15Z

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:

> Ok, there's a pre7-9 out there, and the biggest change versus pre7-8 is
[...]
> Just the dirty buffer handling made quite an enormous difference, so
> please do test this if you hated earlier pre7 kernels.

# vmstat 5
9 3 0 0 921884 1796 12776 0 0 0 0 108 77813 2 90 8
11 1 1 12044 523248 1080 25232 0 2494 0 624 327 16323 1 97 3
13 0 1 16468 728120 720 29000 0 3818 0 955 364 17820 3 97 0
11 1 1 336 237340 720 13040 0 1114 0 278 200 10402 1 99 0
10 2 1 476 41628 720 13184 0 4066 0 1017 401 5792 1 99 0
VM: killing process ipctst
VM: killing process ipctst
VM: killing process ipctst
4 5 1 31872 2500 96 25592 22 13447 6 3362 983 10863 0 82 1
5 4 1 58708 675260 280 19024 0 5388 12 1355 2231 1558 0 77 23
0 0 0 58708 675260 280 19024 0 0 0 0 112 4 0 0 100

I still hate it ;-)

Greetings
Christoph