From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 14:44:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 14:44:18 -0400 Received: from [195.223.140.107] ([195.223.140.107]:41454 "EHLO athlon.random") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 14:44:11 -0400 Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 20:44:28 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: john slee Cc: arjan@fenrus.demon.nl, Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.10aa1 (00_vm-tweaks-1) Message-ID: <20010925204428.A8350@athlon.random> In-Reply-To: <20010925183357.E29541@higherplane.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010925183357.E29541@higherplane.net>; from indigoid@higherplane.net on Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 06:33:57PM +1000 X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 06:33:57PM +1000, john slee wrote: > On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 10:46:36PM +0100, arjan@fenrus.demon.nl wrote: > > In article you wrote: > > >> If you took my patch for it, PLEASE don't send it for inclusion; it's an > > >> evil hack and no longer needed when Intel fixes the bug in their 440GX bios. > > > > > "when" is not a word I find useful about most bios bugs. Try "if" or > > > "less likely that being hit on the head by an asteroid" > > > > This case is different. Intel promised the update "soon". For them it's > > oh, they _promised_! great! > > on another note... > > 2.4.10 is great incidentally, noticeably improved performance for > a somewhat large postgresql db on raid0 (35GB, ~100 million rows) This was actually the first priority and it's nice to hear it is apparently been achieved successfully. I also take the opportunity to remind everybody to keep the 00_vm-tweaks-1 from 2.4.10aa1 applied on top of 2.4.10, it seems quite important here. thanks, Andrea