Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 11:05:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 11:05:30 -0500 Received: from lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.1]:3083 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 11:05:16 -0500 Subject: Re: clarification about redhat and vm To: andrea@suse.de (Andrea Arcangeli) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 16:17:21 +0000 (GMT) Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, riel@conectiva.com.br (Rik van Riel) In-Reply-To: <20020117161055.K4847@athlon.random> from "Andrea Arcangeli" at Jan 17, 2002 04:10:55 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > "If redhat doesn't use the -aa VM " was a short form of "if redhat > cannot see the goodness of all the bugfixing work that happened between > the 2.4.9 VM and any current branch 2.4, and so if they keep shipping > 2.4.9 VM as the best one for DBMS and critical VM apps like the SAP > benchmark". The RH VM is totally unrelated to the crap in 2.4.9 vanilla. The SAP comment begs a question. 2.4.10 seems to have problems remembering to actually do fsync()'s. How much of your SAP benchmark is from fsync's that dont happen ? Do you get the same values with 2.4.18-aa ? Alan - 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/