Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 06 Jun 2001 09:06:50 +0200 | From | "Martin.Knoblauch" <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.5 VM |
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Alan Cox wrote: > > > Just let me add my observation. The VM behaviour of 2.4.5 (started with > > some 2.4.4-ac kernel) is definitely less than an improvement for *my* > > 2.4.5 and 2.4.4-ac are unrelated VM setups. 2.4.5-ac is probably much better > for a lot of loads as it has the 2.4.5 general behaviour but gets the aging > a lot more sane
OK. Maybe my wording was implying a nonexisting relation. In any case, the behaviour I described started with some of the later (-ac12) versions of 2.4.4-ac and continues with 2.4.5-ac.
On a side question: does Linux support swap-files in addition to sawp-partitions? Even if that has a performance penalty, when the system is swapping performance is dead anyway.
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