From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 31 May 2001 18:45:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 31 May 2001 18:45:28 -0400 Received: from mail.digitalme.com ([193.97.97.75]:47529 "EHLO digitalme.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 31 May 2001 18:45:13 -0400 Message-ID: <3B16C9A8.7090402@digitalme.com> Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 18:46:00 -0400 From: "Trever L. Adams" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.5 i686; en-US; rv:0.9+) Gecko/20010529 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel Subject: 2.4.5 VM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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