Re: Have the 2.4 kernel memory management problems on large machines been fixed?

J Sloan
2002-05-22T17:54:55Z

Alan Cox wrote:

>>I wouldn't bother using RedHat's kernel for this at the moment,
>>Andrea's tree is where the development work for this area has all
>>been happening recently. He's working on integrating O(1) sched
>>right now, which will get rid of the biggest issue I have with -aa
>>
>>
>
>Still ? Its been in the Red Hat 7.3 tree since we released it. Its also
>in the -ac tree all nicely merged. I guess your definition of happening
>is my definition of "happened" 8)
>

Huh? RH 7.3 kernel has the O(1) scheduler merged?

If the RH kernel is anything like the 2.4.19-pre8-ac5
I'm currently running, that is sweet indeed.

Joe