Re: Ongoing 2.4 VM suckage

David Ford
2001-08-03T18:00:44Z

If it is that badly broken, isn't that sufficient criteria to justify
the patch?

Yes, I have experienced this frustration many times myself.

David

Rik van Riel wrote:

>On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
>>
>>>I'm about the zillionth person to complain about this problem on
>>>this list. It is completely unacceptable to say that I can't
>>>use the memory on my machines because the kernel is too hungry
>>>for cache.
>>>
>>Fully agreed. The problem is that getting a solution which
>>works in a multizoned VM isn't all that easy, otherwise we
>>would have fixed it ages ago ...
>>
>
>Well, actually there are a few known solutions to this
>problem, but they are not really an option for the 2.4
>series since they require large code changes...
>