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Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 18:59:30 -0500 (EST)
From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH *] rmap VM 11c
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On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Rik van Riel wrote:

> For this release, IO tests are very much welcome ...
> 
> 
> The third maintenance release of the 11th version of the reverse
> mapping based VM is now available.
> This is an attempt at making a more robust and flexible VM
> subsystem, while cleaning up a lot of code at the same time.
> The patch is available from:
> 
>            http://surriel.com/patches/2.4/2.4.17-rmap-11c
> and        http://linuxvm.bkbits.net/

Rik, I tried a simple test, building a kernel in a 128M P-II-400, and when
the load average got up to 50 or so the system became slow;-) On the other
hand it was still usable for most normal things other then incoming mail
which properly blocks at LA>10 or so.

I'll be trying it on a large machine tomorrow, but it at least looks
stable. In real life no sane person would do that, would they? Make with a
nice -10 was essentially invisible.

Maybe tomorrow the lateest -aa kernel on the same machine, with and
without my own personal patch.

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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