From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 04:42:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 04:42:48 -0400 Received: from hermine.idb.hist.no ([158.38.50.15]:1799 "HELO hermine.idb.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 04:42:37 -0400 Message-ID: <3B7792B9.61721B85@idb.hist.no> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 10:41:29 +0200 From: Helge Hafting X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.8-pre8 i686) X-Accept-Language: no, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: VM working much better in 2.4.8 than before In-Reply-To: <20010811234822.A422@debian> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org misty-@charter.net wrote: > > I've said it before, I'll say it again - you guys deserve a > 'this is a great thing' report once in a while. This is such a report :) 2.4.8 is good indeed. My vmstat window tells me it ties up about 40M less in page cache than earlier kernels, possibly an effect of use-once. (This is a 128M desktop machine.) updatedb run still manages to use some swap, but the machine is no longer sluggish in the morning. :-) Helge Hafting