Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 25 Sep 2001 20:44:28 +0200 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.10aa1 (00_vm-tweaks-1) |
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On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 06:33:57PM +1000, john slee wrote: > On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 10:46:36PM +0100, arjan@fenrus.demon.nl wrote: > > In article <E15lH4e-0000VP-00@the-village.bc.nu> you wrote: > > >> If you took my patch for it, PLEASE don't send it for inclusion; it's an > > >> evil hack and no longer needed when Intel fixes the bug in their 440GX bios. > > > > > "when" is not a word I find useful about most bios bugs. Try "if" or > > > "less likely that being hit on the head by an asteroid" > > > > This case is different. Intel promised the update "soon". For them it's > > oh, they _promised_! great! > > on another note... > > 2.4.10 is great incidentally, noticeably improved performance for > a somewhat large postgresql db on raid0 (35GB, ~100 million rows)
This was actually the first priority and it's nice to hear it is apparently been achieved successfully.
I also take the opportunity to remind everybody to keep the 00_vm-tweaks-1 from 2.4.10aa1 applied on top of 2.4.10, it seems quite important here.
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