Re: [OT] 2.6 not 3.0 - (WAS Re: [PATCH-RFC] 4 of 4 - New problem logging macros, SCSI RAIDdevice)

Dave Jones
2002-10-03T16:44:09Z

On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 08:57:13AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> The memory management issues would qualify for 3.0, but my argument there
> is really that I doubt everybody really is happy yet. Which was why I
> asked for people to test it and complain about VM behaviour - and we've
> had some ccomplaints ("too swap-happy") although they haven't sounded like
> really horrible problems.

We still need some work for low memory boxes (where low isn't
necessarily all that low). On my 128MB laptop I can lock up the box
for a minute or two at a time by doing two things at the same time,
like a bk pull, and switching desktops.

I dread to think how a 16 or 32MB box performs these days..

Dave

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