From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263126AbTDVNHe (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2003 09:07:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263128AbTDVNHe (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2003 09:07:34 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:3226 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263126AbTDVNHd (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2003 09:07:33 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 06:19:14 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: pgcl-2.5.68-1 Message-ID: <20030422131914.GE8931@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20030422122747.GD8931@holomorphy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030422122747.GD8931@holomorphy.com> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 05:27:47AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > Results: [...] > HighTotal: 65198080 kB > HighFree: 65131968 kB > LowTotal: 751872 kB > LowFree: 708480 kB [...] > LowFree remains above 700MB, as compared to under 200MB on mainline. The point of the tree (I guess it's big enough to call a tree instead of a patch) being, from the POV of my funding sources etc., that 64GB i386 has significant amounts of lowmem pressure alleviated and so the machines are actually able to support various workloads for which they were intended. If you've got >= 16GB of highmem, you should be extremely interested in this patch. It also increases maximum fs blocksize, which was its original purpose as it was conceived by Hugh Dickins in his 2.4.6/2.4.7 patches (and his 2.4.x implementation was in many ways superior to my own). -- wli