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On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 08:57:13AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

 > The memory management issues would qualify for 3.0, but my argument there 
 > is really that I doubt everybody really is happy yet. Which was why I 
 > asked for people to test it and complain about VM behaviour - and we've 
 > had some ccomplaints ("too swap-happy") although they haven't sounded like 
 > really horrible problems.

We still need some work for low memory boxes (where low isn't
necessarily all that low). On my 128MB laptop I can lock up the box
for a minute or two at a time by doing two things at the same time,
like a bk pull, and switching desktops.

I dread to think how a 16 or 32MB box performs these days..

		Dave				

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| Dave Jones.        http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
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