From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265089AbTLCShU (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2003 13:37:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265101AbTLCShU (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2003 13:37:20 -0500 Received: from ppp-217-133-42-200.cust-adsl.tiscali.it ([217.133.42.200]:63137 "EHLO dualathlon.random") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265089AbTLCShS (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2003 13:37:18 -0500 Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 19:37:19 +0100 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Ian Soboroff Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.23 includes Andrea's VM? Message-ID: <20031203183719.GD24651@dualathlon.random> References: <9cfptf6vts7.fsf@rogue.ncsl.nist.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9cfptf6vts7.fsf@rogue.ncsl.nist.gov> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-GPG-Key: 1024D/68B9CB43 13D9 8355 295F 4823 7C49 C012 DFA1 686E 68B9 CB43 X-PGP-Key: 1024R/CB4660B9 CC A0 71 81 F4 A0 63 AC C0 4B 81 1D 8C 15 C8 E5 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 09:51:36AM -0500, Ian Soboroff wrote: > > I have a machine with 12GB of RAM, and I've been running a 2.4.22-era > kernel with Andrea's patches on it, otherwise it dies from lack of > lowmem. > > The latest -aa patch is for 2.4.23-pre6, but I see in the 2.4.23 > Changelog that at least some bits of Andrea's VM were merged. Should > I be able to run a vanilla 2.4.23 on this box? It's probably going to work an order of magnitude better thanks especially to the lower_zone_reserve algorithm. However I'd still recommend to use my tree, the last two critical bits you need from my tree are inode-highmem and related_bhs. Those two are still missing, and you probably need them with 12G. I'm going to release a 2.4.23aa1 btw, that will be the last 2.4-aa.