Re: 2.6.3-mm3

Mike Fedyk
2004-02-26T01:28:58Z

Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:
> On Thursday 26 February 2004 02:06, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>
>>>>>What about Nick's fix up patch for the two patches above? Should I
>>>>>include that one also?
>>>
>>>I'm running 2.6.3-mm3-486-fazok (nick's patch), and it has improved my
>>>slab usage greatly. It was averaging 500MB-700MB slab. Now slab is
>>>~230MB, and page cache is ~700MB
>>
>>That is a much better sounding ratio. Of course that doesn't mean much
>>if performance is worse. Slab might be getting reclaimed a little bit
>>too hard vs pagecache now.
>
>
> sorry for not following this thread, but where do I find the mm3 rollup patch
> this thread is talking about? akpm's directory does not contain it, or I am
> blind b/c it isn't named like that or similar ;>

It's just the regular ~2MB bz2 file you normally get (ie, it's not
"split-out" like in the directory where all patches are seperate...)