RE: Fw: [Bug 4520] New: /proc/*/maps fragments too quickly compared to

Chen, Kenneth W
2005-05-10T15:35:54Z

Andrew Morton wrote on Monday, May 09, 2005 2:27 PM
> Possibly for the 2.6.12 release the safest approach would be to just
> disable the free area cache while we think about it.

I hope people are not thinking permanently kill the free area cache
algorithm. It is known to give a large percentage of performance gain
on specweb SSL benchmark. I think it gives 4-5% gain from free area
cache algorithm.