Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 06:31:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 06:30:56 -0500 Received: from [62.245.135.174] ([62.245.135.174]:14979 "EHLO mail.teraport.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 06:30:45 -0500 Message-ID: <3C1DD75D.3BECBCF@TeraPort.de> Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 12:30:37 +0100 From: Martin Knoblauch Reply-To: m.knoblauch@TeraPort.de Organization: TeraPort GmbH X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.17-rc1 i686) X-Accept-Language: en, de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.17-rc1 X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on lotus/Teraport/de(Release 5.0.7 |March 21, 2001) at 12/17/2001 12:30:37 PM, Serialize by Router on lotus/Teraport/de(Release 5.0.7 |March 21, 2001) at 12/17/2001 12:30:44 PM, Serialize complete at 12/17/2001 12:30:44 PM Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Linux 2.4.17-rc1 > > > Hi, > > I've just copied 2.4.17-rc1 to ftp.kernel.org... Its mirroring yet, > probably. > > Well, I want people with the "unfreeable" buffer/cache problem to confirm > with me that 2.4.17-rc1 is working ok. > > The same change which should fix that problem also should make 2.4 a bit > less "swap happy". > Marcello, the system feels a bit better. This on a 320MB Toshiba notebook with 64MB swap. I have forced a complete run of "updatedb", while running "vmware" and NetScape. Still swapping out, but the behaviour is [much] smoother. Not so many "hangs" when the local disk is busy. Martin -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Martin Knoblauch | email: Martin.Knoblauch@TeraPort.de TeraPort GmbH | Phone: +49-89-510857-309 C+ITS | Fax: +49-89-510857-111 http://www.teraport.de | Mobile: +49-170-4904759 - 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/