Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Oct 2002 17:51:42 +0100 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: [OT] 2.6 not 3.0 - (WAS Re: [PATCH-RFC] 4 of 4 - New problem logging macros, SCSI RAIDdevice) |
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On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 08:57:13AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> The memory management issues would qualify for 3.0, but my argument there > is really that I doubt everybody really is happy yet. Which was why I > asked for people to test it and complain about VM behaviour - and we've > had some ccomplaints ("too swap-happy") although they haven't sounded like > really horrible problems.
We still need some work for low memory boxes (where low isn't necessarily all that low). On my 128MB laptop I can lock up the box for a minute or two at a time by doing two things at the same time, like a bk pull, and switching desktops.
I dread to think how a 16 or 32MB box performs these days..
Dave
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