Re: 2.6.0-test9 - poor swap performance on low end machines

William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-09T18:31:59Z

On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 04:11:03PM +0100, Roger Luethi wrote:
> I'm afraid you have a solution in search of a problem. Nobody runs a
> 10x overcommit system. And if they did, they would find it doesn't work
> well with 2.4, either, so no one will complain about a regression. What
> does happen, though, is that people go close to the limit of what
> their low-end hardware supports, which will work perfectly with 2.4
> and collapse with 2.6.

No, I've got a guy in Russia complaining about 2.6 not doing well on
one of his boxen.

-- wli