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, 22 May 2002 13:54:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 22 May 2002 13:54:54 -0400 Received: from flrtn-4-m1-42.vnnyca.adelphia.net ([24.55.69.42]:61116 "EHLO jyro.mirai.cx") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 22 May 2002 13:54:53 -0400 Message-ID: <3CEBDB6C.5070005@tmsusa.com> Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 10:54:52 -0700 From: J Sloan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020520 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: linux kernel Subject: Re: Have the 2.4 kernel memory management problems on large machines been fixed? In-Reply-To: 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 Alan Cox wrote: >>I wouldn't bother using RedHat's kernel for this at the moment, >>Andrea's tree is where the development work for this area has all >>been happening recently. He's working on integrating O(1) sched >>right now, which will get rid of the biggest issue I have with -aa >> >> > >Still ? Its been in the Red Hat 7.3 tree since we released it. Its also >in the -ac tree all nicely merged. I guess your definition of happening >is my definition of "happened" 8) > Huh? RH 7.3 kernel has the O(1) scheduler merged? If the RH kernel is anything like the 2.4.19-pre8-ac5 I'm currently running, that is sweet indeed. Joe