Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 12 Jul 1998 22:21:50 -0400 | From | Russell Leighton <> | Subject | VM a serious issue for 2.2? (was Re: Strange interrupt behaviour) |
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Alan Cox wrote: > 2.1.10x isnt usable on a server with 16Mb. It eventually fragments > itself to death normally death by dcache fragmentation of main > memory. I suspect a 32Mb box will simply last longer rather than > survive indefinitely. > > I'm rebooting 32Mb SMP machines running 2.1.106/2.1.108 every 48 > hours to get my compile performance back from 2/3rds of boot > time. > > I don't think VM fixing by the ostrich technique is remotely realistic > for 2.2 even if Linus does. > > Alan
So ... for us lurking non-kernel types...
Is it fair to say 2.2 will be a version of Linux that will slowly frag to death, if there is not a serious rework of the VM management?
THIS, just at the time when MS is stumbling and all eyes in the industry are on Linux...
THAT SAID, what makes Linux great is that it is NOT slave to politcal/biz pressures...
And THAT SAID, why lose face when the "schedule" can be slipped? Just move a few features from the next dev release down to this one and let this one slip...is there really much to be lost by doing this?
Linux has a reputation for quality, it would be sad to be lumped in with the rest of the "we'll fix that in the next release" crowd.
Russ
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