Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Jan 2001 01:45:47 +0000 (GMT) | From | David Woodhouse <> | Subject | Re: Subtle MM bug |
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On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> And this _is_ a downside, there's no question about it. There's the worry > about the potential loss of locality, but there's also the fact that you > effectively need a bigger swap partition with 2.4.x - never mind that > large portions of the allocations may never be used. You still need the > disk space for good VM behaviour. > > There are always trade-offs, I think the 2.4.x tradeoff is a good one.
How does this affect embedded systems with no swap space at all?
-- dwmw2
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