Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 16 Jun 1997 15:45:32 -0400 (EDT) | | From | Ion Badulescu <> | | Subject | Re: pre-2.0.32-2 + this patch works for me |
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On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Thomas Koenig wrote:
> I've installed Gerard Roudier's patch on top of pre-31.2, and it > works very well indeed. Responsiveness is way up, again.
Yes, it's much better that the previous patch from David. Although that one also prevented lock-ups when stressing the disks, in the long run buffers had a tendency to take WAY too much memory, somewhere in the range of 50-60% (and this on a 48 MB box). As a result, even moderate usage let to almost continuous swapping, yet buffers never decreased.
With Gerard's patch I can't "feel" that the box is swapping, and it's also fairly resistant to badblocks/mke2fs abuse. Buffers stay where they should, i.e. in the 20-25% range.
> Congrats!
My congratulations as well,
Ionut
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