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From: "Trever L. Adams" <vichu@digitalme.com>
To: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: 2.4.5 VM
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 18:46:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B16C9A8.7090402@digitalme.com> (raw)

In my opinion 2.4.x is NOT ready for primetime.  The VM has been getting 
worse since 2.4.0, I believe.  Definitely since and including 2.4.3.  I 
cannot even edit a few images in gimp where the entire working set used 
to fit entirely in memory.  The system now locks in some loop (SAK still 
works).

FILE CACHING IS BROKEN.  I don't care who says what, by the time swap is 
half filled, it is time to start throwing away simple caches.  Not wait 
until there is no more memory free and then lock in an infinite loop.

My system has 128 Meg of Swap and RAM.

Trever Adams


             reply	other threads:[~2001-05-31 22:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-31 22:46 Trever L. Adams [this message]
2001-05-31 22:49 ` 2.4.5 VM Alan Cox
2001-05-31 22:56   ` Trever L. Adams
2001-05-31 22:57     ` Alan Cox
2001-06-01  4:27       ` Billy Harvey
2001-06-01  8:29   ` Marcin Kowalski
2001-06-01  8:43     ` David Rees
2001-06-01 15:48   ` Russell Leighton
2001-05-31 22:59 ` Christopher Zimmerman
2001-05-31 23:40   ` Trever L. Adams
2001-05-31 23:56   ` Christopher Zimmerman
2001-05-31 23:58     ` Christopher Zimmerman
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.10.10106011028150.6653-100000@webman.medikredit.co.>
2001-06-01  9:27 ` Marcin Kowalski
2001-06-01 14:42   ` Marcelo Tosatti
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-06-01 17:15 Miquel Colom Piza
2001-06-01 17:53 ` Ken Brownfield
2001-06-05 11:18 Martin.Knoblauch
2001-06-05 17:20 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-06  7:06   ` Martin.Knoblauch
2001-06-06  7:42     ` Christian Bornträger
2001-06-06  7:51     ` Alan Cox
2001-06-06  7:45   ` Jonathan Morton

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