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

Alan Cox
2001-12-29T00:20:33Z

> Fix the VM-management in kernel 2.4.x. It's unusable. Believe
> me! As comparison: kernel 2.2.19 didn't need nearly any swap for
> the same operation!
> The performance of kernel 2.4.18pre1 is very poor, which is no surprise,
> because the machine swaps nearly nonstop.

Does the 2.4.9 Red Hat kernel (if yoiu are using RH) or 2.4.12-ac8 show the
same problem ?