Messages in this thread | | | From | (Linus Torvalds) | Subject | More on memory rusting.. | Date | 20 Jul 1998 18:34:45 GMT |
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Would people who use small-memory machines and see the rusting effect and have a good feel for it please try out the new pre-110-3 patch on ftp.kernel.org to see whether it looks better.
What 2.1.110-3 does is to much more aggressively throw out dentries (and thus inodes) under low-memory circumstances. It may be _too_ aggressive right now, but if so that just gives a good mid point to strive for.
I'd really like to hear comments about how this "feels" (and numbers too, if you have them). It's fairly hard for me to judge, as whenever I run Linux on small-memory machines it always feels slower than I'm used to, regardless of whether Linux does the right thing or not ;)
Linus
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