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Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 10:21:33 +0200 (SAST)
From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linux.realnet.co.sz>
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To: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
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Subject: Re: 2.4.13-ac5-preempt, overflow in cached memory stat?
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On 5 Nov 2001, Robert Love wrote:

> On Sat, 2001-11-03 at 04:51, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> > I experienced a power loss and upon booting of the system, fsck was run on
> > my / partition (ext3). When it was done i noticed the following;
>
> ac7 contains a fix for cache memory accounting; I think it would fix
> your problem.  can you give it a try?  the preempt patch for ac6 should
> apply fine...
>
> 	Robert Love
>

Thanks, I just saw a thread discussing the very same issue i had, i'll
download both ac7 and the ac6 preempt patch and give it a try.

PS I know you keep hearing this, but that preempt patch makes for some
damn smooth interactive performance ;)

Regards,
	Zwane Mwaikambo

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