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    SubjectRe: Linux 2.4.4-ac10
    On Fri, 18 May 2001, Sasi Peter wrote:
    > On Thu, 17 May 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
    >
    > > Or are you just comparing with 2.2 and you'd rather
    > > have 2.2 performance? ;)
    >
    > Actually, yes. Doing fileserving with Samba, and also using the box
    > interactively feels better with 2.2, and also the average TCP througput
    > (measured by iptraf) seems higher.

    This part is probably mostly due to the inode and dentry
    cache balancing being completely broken in current 2.4
    kernels. Expect a patch soon (I'm running something really
    ugly right now here at home, I'll make something cleaner).

    regards,

    Rik
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