Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 22:57:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 22:57:03 -0500 Received: from host154.207-175-42.redhat.com ([207.175.42.154]:995 "EHLO lacrosse.corp.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 22:56:44 -0500 Message-ID: <3C030EFB.8060001@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 22:56:43 -0500 From: Doug Ledford User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.6+) Gecko/20011121 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sean Elble CC: "Nathan G. Grennan" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Unresponiveness of 2.4.16 In-Reply-To: <1006812135.1420.0.camel@cygnusx-1.okcforum.org> <01b501c176f6$8bac6cd0$0a00a8c0@intranet.mp3s.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sean Elble wrote: >>I tried switching to Redhat's 2.4.9-13 kernel and it acts Alot better. >>Not only does 2.4.9-13 not get the 30 second delay, but it also seems to >>take advantage of caching. 2.4.16 takes the same moment of time each >>time, even tho it should have cached it all into memory the first time. >> > > Unless Red Hat has specifically added Andrea's new VM code to the 2.4.9 > kernel, then that kernel is still using the old VM. Not exactly. That kernel is -ac based (plus lots of other patches, some of them VM tweaks) and is a Van Riel VM. -- Doug Ledford http://people.redhat.com/dledford Please check my web site for aic7xxx updates/answers before e-mailing me about problems - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/