Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 8 Jan 2001 18:58:00 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Subtle MM bug |
| |
On 9 Jan 2001, Zlatko Calusic wrote: > > Yes, but a lot more data on the swap also means degraded performance, > because the disk head has to seek around in the much bigger area. Are > you sure this is all OK?
Yes and no.
I'm not _sure_, obviously.
However, one thing I _am_ sure of is that the sticky page-cache simplifies some things enormously, and make some things possible that simply weren't possible before.
Linus
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
|  |