Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable

Daniel Phillips
2002-01-16T18:50:06Z

On January 14, 2002 01:46 am, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Finally, I doubt that any of this will address my biggest problem with
> Linux, which is that as memory gets cheap a program doing significant disk
> writing can get buffers VERY full (perhaps a while CD worth) before the
> kernel decides to do the write, at which point the system becomes
> non-responsive for seconds at a time while the disk light comes on and
> stays on. That's another problem, and I did play with some patches this
> weekend without making myself really happy :-( Another topic,
> unfortunately.

Patience, this is understood, a solution is known and a fix is in the
pipeline.

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Daniel