From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 03:07:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 03:07:17 -0400 Received: from mail.muc.eurocyber.net ([195.143.108.5]:2295 "EHLO mail.muc.eurocyber.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 03:07:03 -0400 Message-ID: <3B1DD68A.17C8FD52@TeraPort.de> Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 09:06:50 +0200 From: "Martin.Knoblauch" Organization: TeraPort GmbH X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.5-ac8 i686) X-Accept-Language: en, de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: 2.4.5 VM In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------D2D1E0DB5F820C9EBBE5C428" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------D2D1E0DB5F820C9EBBE5C428 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Alan Cox wrote: > > > Just let me add my observation. The VM behaviour of 2.4.5 (started with > > some 2.4.4-ac kernel) is definitely less than an improvement for *my* > > 2.4.5 and 2.4.4-ac are unrelated VM setups. 2.4.5-ac is probably much better > for a lot of loads as it has the 2.4.5 general behaviour but gets the aging > a lot more sane OK. Maybe my wording was implying a nonexisting relation. In any case, the behaviour I described started with some of the later (-ac12) versions of 2.4.4-ac and continues with 2.4.5-ac. On a side question: does Linux support swap-files in addition to sawp-partitions? Even if that has a performance penalty, when the system is swapping performance is dead anyway. Martin -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Martin Knoblauch | email: Martin.Knoblauch@TeraPort.de TeraPort GmbH | Phone: +49-89-510857-309 C+ITS | Fax: +49-89-510857-111 http://www.teraport.de | Mobile: +49-170-4904759 --------------D2D1E0DB5F820C9EBBE5C428 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="Martin.Knoblauch.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Martin.Knoblauch Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Martin.Knoblauch.vcf" begin:vcard n:Knoblauch;Martin tel;cell:+49-170-4904759 tel;fax:+49-89-510857-111 tel;work:+49-89-510857-309 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.teraport.de org:TeraPort GmbH;C+ITS adr:;;Garmischer Straße 4;München;Bayern;D-80339;Germany version:2.1 email;internet:Martin.Knoblauch@TeraPort.de title:Senior System Engineer x-mozilla-cpt:;-7008 fn:Martin Knoblauch end:vcard --------------D2D1E0DB5F820C9EBBE5C428--