Re: patch-2.4.10-pre1

Kurt Garloff
2001-08-27T23:16:05Z

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On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 01:25:45PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Ok, I'm back from Finland, and there's a 2.4.10-pre1 update on kernel.org.
> Changelog appended..
>
> The most noticeable one (under the right loads) is probably the one-liner
> by Daniel that avoids some bad behaviour when swapping.

Looks like a good one.
Actually, I got two wishes for 2.4.10:
* It hopefully overcomes all the VM trouble
(this list is full of reports; some of my observation look like creating
dirty pages in the page cache at a high rate makes your system crawl.
An efficient way is use mkfs with Andrea's blkdev-pgcache patch, but
it's not the only way.)
* It'll hopefully be identical to 2.5.0,
so people have a kernel to put experimental stuff in instead of 2.4.x
Good things can always be backported, once proven stable.

Regards,
--
Kurt Garloff <kurt@garloff.de> [Eindhoven, NL]
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