Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 27 May 2001 22:25:15 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > mm: critical shortage of bounce buffers. > > Indeed this message has been pestering me in all the recent .4-acx kernels when > the machine is under heavy FS pressure. > > In these kernels I observe a significative (5-10%) performance degradation as > soon as the FS cache fills up all the available memory, at this moment "kswapd"
Its there to prove we had a problem
> 2.4.2-acx and early 2.4.3-acx kernles were much better in this respect and a lot > more stable.
Hit any 2.4 kernel pre 2.4.5 vanilla [maybe fixed] and you will break bigmem that way. - 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/
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