Messages in this thread | | | From | (bill davidsen) | Subject | Re: 2.4.23 includes Andrea's VM? | Date | 3 Dec 2003 21:59:12 GMT |
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In article <20031203183719.GD24651@dualathlon.random>, Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> wrote: | On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 09:51:36AM -0500, Ian Soboroff wrote: | > | > I have a machine with 12GB of RAM, and I've been running a 2.4.22-era | > kernel with Andrea's patches on it, otherwise it dies from lack of | > lowmem. | > | > The latest -aa patch is for 2.4.23-pre6, but I see in the 2.4.23 | > Changelog that at least some bits of Andrea's VM were merged. Should | > I be able to run a vanilla 2.4.23 on this box? | | It's probably going to work an order of magnitude better thanks | especially to the lower_zone_reserve algorithm. | | However I'd still recommend to use my tree, the last two critical bits | you need from my tree are inode-highmem and related_bhs. Those two are | still missing, and you probably need them with 12G. | | I'm going to release a 2.4.23aa1 btw, that will be the last 2.4-aa.
I'd like to thank you for all the great VM work you've done, and all the help you gave me off-list back when 1GB was still "a hell of a lot of RAM" and responded to tuning bdflush.
Since 2.4 is now frozen it's probably the last -aa release ever needed, in any case. Future releases, if any, are unlikely to change anything which would keep the patches from working.
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