Re: Ptrace hole / Linux 2.2.25

Martin J. Bligh
2003-03-23T23:24:07Z

>> O(1) sched may be a bad example ... how about the fact that mainline VM
>> is totally unstable? Witness, for instance, the buffer_head stuff. Fixes
>> for that have been around for ages.
>
> On normal computers 2.4.21pre VM is very stable, in fact I dumped the
> rmap vm from -ac because its far better at the moment

Cool - I gave up on 2.4 before that. Perhaps it's getting sorted out now
... is the buffer_head stuff fixed now? If 2.4 VM was more or less the same
across distros, that would get rid of a whole bunch of pain.

> Most people don't care about 32 way scaling of 16Gb boxes running EVMS.

That wasn't what I meant ... but I think there's a place for a tree
of common vendor 2.4 fixes & features, a separate one for the workstation
and server stuff if you will. All the current duplication of effort seems
rather silly.

M.