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Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 23:02:21 +0200
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: "Alok K. Dhir" <alok@dhir.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.6-pre2 VM
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On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 01:17:05AM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Alok K. Dhir wrote:
> 
> > Just wondering - has anyone who was having issues with the VM
> > subsystem in 2.4.5 and a few versions below tried v2.4.6-pre2? 
> > Is the problem reduced and/or resolved?
> 
> The answer is both yes and no, depending on which VM problem
> you're talking about. ;)

What is about the problem that 2.4.x is swapping out too much? Are there
currently any patches for testing? Or are there some values in proc
which can change this bad vm-behaviour?