Re: filesystem access slowing system to a crawl

Andrew Morton
2003-02-20T21:33:30Z

Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@wolk-project.de> wrote:
>
> On Thursday 20 February 2003 19:35, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> Hi Andrew,
>
> > Andrea's VM patches, against 2.4.21-pre4 are at
> > http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/2.4/2.4.21-pre4/
> > The applying order is in the series file.
> I am afraid Marcelo will never accept these or some of them.
>

The most important one is inode-highmem. It's a safe patch, and the risk of
it causing problems due to not having other surrounding -aa stuff is low.

It's a matter of someone getting down, testing it and sending it.

Ho hum. It'll take an hour. I shall try.