Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 12:39:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 12:38:55 -0500 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:25674 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 12:38:36 -0500 Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 18:38:45 +0100 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Alan Cox Cc: Christoph Rohland , Wilhelm Nuesser , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rik van Riel Subject: Re: clarification about redhat and vm Message-ID: <20020119183845.E21279@athlon.random> In-Reply-To:

Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: ; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 01:54:04PM +0000 X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 01:54:04PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > BTW since we are just bashing VMs: I always hear that 2.2 is so much > > better: The first 2.2 kernel which could really survive this test was > > 2.2.19! > > That I can believe. With the exception of the dcache balancing problem the > 2.2.19/20 VM basically eliminated all 2.2 bug reports on VM behaviour. can you reproduce the dcache problem with this patch applied? ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.2/2.2.20aa1/00_inode-boot-dynamic-3 The grow of the dcache in 2.2 is bound to the grow of the icache which is not dynamic in 2.2. (modulo hardlinks but I don't think the guy was using hardlinks) Andrea - 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/