Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 13:48:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 13:48:47 -0500 Received: from [66.89.142.2] ([66.89.142.2]:31801 "EHLO starship.berlin") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 13:48:37 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Daniel Phillips To: Bill Davidsen , Andrea Arcangeli Subject: Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 10:08:19 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On January 14, 2002 01:46 am, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Finally, I doubt that any of this will address my biggest problem with > Linux, which is that as memory gets cheap a program doing significant disk > writing can get buffers VERY full (perhaps a while CD worth) before the > kernel decides to do the write, at which point the system becomes > non-responsive for seconds at a time while the disk light comes on and > stays on. That's another problem, and I did play with some patches this > weekend without making myself really happy :-( Another topic, > unfortunately. Patience, this is understood, a solution is known and a fix is in the pipeline. -- Daniel - 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/