Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Sep 2000 15:40:04 -0400 (EDT) | From | Mark Hahn <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.0-test8-pre1 is quite bad |
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> > Any of you tried copying a 2G file in the same (ext2) > > filesystem? It starts swapping like mad and generally behaves > > indecently, despite the huge 1024M of RAM it has. > > http://www.surriel.com/patches/2.4.0-t8p1-vmpatch2
this patch works very nicely. it's still a little timid at swapping out truely idle pages, but is otherwise a major improvement. I hope Linus takes it, since unpatched, 2.4 VM has some rough edges.
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