Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 19 Jan 2002 18:38:45 +0100 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: clarification about redhat and vm |
| |
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/
| |