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

Andrew Morton
2005-05-10T18:58:18Z

"Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

It also makes previously-working workloads completely *fail*.